Some of you have been asking me if The Bridgehead podcast has been discontinued since the launch of The Van Maren Show on LifeSiteNews. The answer is no–I’ve been working on a relaunch, The Culture Wars, for some time. The goal is to have a longer-form podcast where I get into the issues facing us…
By Jonathon Van Maren Gabby Skwarko, the 23-year-old student who attacked Katie Somers and Blaise Alleyne of Toronto Against Abortion on the campus of Ryerson University last October, pleaded guilty to assault in court yesterday. Skwarko, who was a member of the abortion rights group the Ryerson Reproductive Justice Collective, contributed to a rash of…
By Jonathon Van Maren It was snowing lightly as we wound our way through the rolling hills, past snug-looking farms with golden, glowing windows that appeared warm and inviting amid the white gusts. It had been balmy and bright for my presentations and lectures in the Netherlands, and it was sunny springtime in Salzburg, where…
By Jonathon Van Maren I was stopped in my tracks today by a photo I had never seen. As a full-time pro-life activist, sometimes I think I have seen all the abortion victim photos there are. But I had never seen this one before, and the awful power of the photo grabbed me by the…
By Jonathon Van Maren I met 26-year-old Manuela Steiner at the Casa Antonio Pizzeria in the Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 9, a stone’s throw away from Salzburg University. It was a beautiful day. A handful of stylishly-dressed men and women stood at a waist-high table sipping white wine and students were devouring their large pizza slices on flimsy…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last August, I reported on the protests against South Korea’s strict abortion laws, which at one point involved 125 women publicly swallowing abortion pills to challenge the government’s stance. South Korean pro-lifers have been pushing back, responding to a petition of 230,000 signatures demanding that abortion be legalized with a counter-petition of over…
