Abort: An Award-Winning Film on Gendercide
Over 100 million baby girls are missing because they were targeted with abortion. This film illustrates that reality in a powerful way.
Doctors lobby for organ donation-euthanasia coordination so organs can be ‘as fresh as possible’
By Jonathon Van Maren September 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As if Canadians did not already have enough to be ashamed of with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s aggressive promotion of abortion around the world, Canada has now joined the Netherlands in lobbying the World Medical Association to change its longstanding position in opposition to assisted suicide. Nations that…
The New Oxford Review on Jonathon Van Maren’s latest book
The following is a review of my latest book, published this month in the New Oxford Review. It is written by Dr. Anne Gardiner and republished here with permission. Anyone who is interested in a copy of Seeing is Believing can find a copy here. Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims…
Why do pro-lifers who adopt liberal positions often forget what it means to be pro-life?
By Jonathon Van Maren September 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In 2015, a documentary on gun violence in America titled Armor of Light was released, directed by Abigail Disney and promoted as the riveting story of an evangelical pastor who confronts his Second Amendment-loving community on the truth about guns. According to the film’s website, the story “tracks Reverend…
From South America to the United States, important victories are being won in the culture wars
By Jonathon Van Maren I’m often asked how I manage to stay in good spirits when one of my primary jobs working fulltime as a pro-life activist is to research and write about the crumbling culture all around us, and that’s a pretty good question. Frustration, disbelief, and even anger are pretty regular sentiments when…
Anthony Esolen and the transgender bull
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve said often that Dr. Anthony Esolen is one of the greatest writers of our time, especially on the culture wars that plague us. His 2017 book Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture was easily the best book on that subject in years, and it is simply true that Esolen…
Millions of babies are aborted in India–and Western tax dollars are funding the slaughter
By Jonathon Van Maren Carmel Nisha Pius Franco has a passion: She wants the world to know about Indian babies who are being killed by abortion by their tens of millions, and she wants people everywhere to know that Western governments are funding the slaughter. She manages a pro-life organization in India called UYIRKKURAL (meaning…
Masculinity Then and Now: UK’s National Health Service encourages video games over “baby trap”
By Jonathon Van Maren The poster is so bizarre and offensive that when I first spotted it on social media, I was pretty sure it must be fake. It featured a black high-heeled shoe, a stick of red lipstick, and the ominous question: “Would you give up this?” and then beneath the high heel and…
The best pro-life speech I’ve ever heard.
By Jonathon Van Maren On July 7, 2018, Irish pro-lifers from the North and the South gathered in Belfast. Niamh Uí Bhriain of Life Institute gave a spellbinding and heartbreaking speech declaring Irish defiance in the face of a rising Culture of Death and promising that the abortion referendum on May 25 would not be…
Pro-Lifers Push Back: Jonathon Van Maren on the latest culture war victories
It is easy to get depressed about the state of the culture–but 2018 has brought a lot of really great news, as well. Jonathon Van Maren reviews some of the most significant culture war victories of the past six months, from South America to Australia to the United States.