By Jonathon Van Maren In the months leading up to the abortion referendum on May 25, one of the most tireless pro-life activists in the Republic of Ireland was Tim Jackson, a young man who quit his job to work fulltime to save the 8th Amendment. For weeks, he led the Vote No Roadshow right…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Queen Elizabeth II, known to some as “the last Christian monarch,” is a profoundly apolitical person—she and her family do not even vote. She has remained for many a steadfast symbol of a Great Britain that has slowly faded away, with her first and favorite prime…
Pro-life activists Bernadette Smyth of Precious Life joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about the abortion referendum in the Republic of Ireland, and what the pro-life movement is planning to do to keep abortion out of Northern Ireland–where abortion is still illegal.
By Jonathon Van Maren Canadian Christians won an extremely important victory at the Supreme Court of Canada today. The Association of Reformed Political Action, a Christian advocacy group rooted in the Reformed theological tradition, summarized it this way in a press release sent out today: Can the decision of a church or religious body to…
By Jonathon Van Maren British commentator Peter Hitchens has a long-standing joke he makes to illustrate the extent to which the institution of marriage is collapsing: Very soon, he notes, the only people interested in getting married will be the lesbian Archbishop of Canterbury to the lesbian Archbishop of York. It seems that the Church…
By Jonathon Van Maren Abortion activists are panicking today as the Supreme Court of the United States announced early this morning that they would not be taking up the lawsuit launched against an Arkansas law that restricts abortion pills. Abortion activists claim that this law—Act 577, which requires doctors who dispense abortion pills to have…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this month, the world’s most famous trans person headed onto TV to criticize President Donald Trump—because, said the former Bruce Jenner, Trump continues to interfere with a community that apparently just wants to be left alone, but the president is not allowing that: “I want him to know politically I…
By Jonathon Van Maren Of all the advocates for the “No” side of Ireland’s abortion referendum, John McGuirk has consistently been among the most eloquent. At press conferences, in media interviews, and on TV panels he beautifully defended the pre-born child and laid out the heartless ugliness that abortion culture brings to every nation that…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As I predicted in my eulogy for pro-life Ireland on Saturday, the autopsies—both mournful and gleeful—are spilling onto the pages of newspapers across the West. But one staggering fact is being consistently ignored: Every single political party in the Republic of Ireland campaigned for abortion on demand. Right across…
By Jonathon Van Maren May 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It is important, in the cut and thrust of the culture wars, to occasionally remind ourselves of the victories that we do accomplish, especially considering that those victories are in defiance of social trends and illustrate the importance of pushing back, getting engaged, and brawling for every inch…