By Jonathon Van Maren With the passing of Phyllis Schlafly at the age of 92 yesterday, a pro-life legend has fallen. I met her in Ohio just prior to the Republican Convention this summer, and frail as she was—I didn’t know she was suffering from cancer at the time–she was still working hard to further…
By Jonathon Van Maren If there’s one place that abortion activists hate more than a maternity ward, it must be pro-life Ireland. They simply cannot countenance the fact that there is a Western country, in the current year, that recognizes the right of human beings developing in the womb to live and grow in safety.…
Dr. Daniel K. Williams is a history professor and the author of “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade. He joins Jonathon to discuss the history of the pro-life movement in the United States.
Dr. Francis J. Beckwith, a renowned pro-life philosopher, joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss good arguments and bad arguments for the pro-life worldview.
Pro-life leader Scott Klusendorf of Life Institute joined Jonathon for a conversation on where the pro-life movement has been, where we’re going, and the challenges that lie ahead.
By Jonathon Van Maren Times seem dark for American conservatism. With the Republican Party engaging in a bloody, full-fledged civil war, the House of Clinton slowly rising once again, and the potential of Barack Obama stacking the Supreme Court with progressive justices for a generation, politicians constantly conjure up the smiling, sunny face of Ronald…
By Jonathon Van Maren Our second weekly State of the Culture review is ready, covering a wide variety of topics. From the declining abortion rate to the violence of Muslim refugees against Christian refugees to the transgender bathroom conundrum, here’s what you should know this week. **** First, the good news: The number of abortions…
In all of North America, there is one place that has an abortion rate as high as Russia: New York City, where seven out of ten pregnancies end in abortion. Pro-life pioneer Chris Slattery of Frontline Crisis Pregnancy Centres has been trying to put a dent in those numbers for years in the face of…
Jason Jones is a long-time pro-life activist, the executive producer of the film Bella, which won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and the author of The Race to Save Our Century. He joins Jonathon to discuss the pro-life art of war–a strategy for winning the battle against abortion.
By Jonathon Van Maren There has been much discussion in so-con circles surrounding Canadian broadcaster Michael Coren’s decision to leave the Catholic Church and instead join the Anglican Church of Canada. To some extent, I don’t have a dog in this denominational fight, since I myself am not Catholic. However, the fact that Coren was…