By Jonathon Van Maren Here’s some pleasant news to start off our culture wars update, from FOX News: The Trump administration stopped taxpayer dollars from going to abortion referrals at publicly funded family planning centers on Monday. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, sued the administration, along with 20 states and the District of Columbia, in an…
By Jonathon Van Maren As January begins, let’s take a look at some of the most important news for the pro-life movement. In Ireland, the reptilian Health Minister Simon Harris, who is desperately hoping that everyone will be so pleased with their abortions that they’ll ignore the disaster he’s made of the healthcare system, is…
By Jonathon Van maren Those of you who read my columns regularly know that I am not a big fan of Donald Trump’s political modus operandi. Many of you have attempted to explain to me why I am wrong in the comment sections, but despite my delight at the Trump Administration’s consistent action on behalf…
By Jonathon Van Maren Good news out of Louisiana—another pro-life law has been upheld. From the National Post: A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana law requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals does not violate women’s constitutional abortion rights. The 2-1 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court…
By Jonathon Van Maren About a year ago, I wrote a column explaining why Tomi Lahren, the beach-blonde talking head who was then working for The Blaze, was wrong about abortion. Lahren had just gone on The View and announced that she was pro-choice, attempting to make the case that since she was for the…
By Jonathon Van Maren As most of you will have already heard, last night President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, to the Supreme Court of the United States. Predictably, the Left immediately melted down, with nearly every abortion organization in the country announcing…
By Jonathon Van Maren Justice Anthony Kennedy, the longstanding swing vote on the United States Supreme Court, has sent his resignation later to President Donald Trump. He was, as David French described, “the primary judicial guardian of abortion rights and was more responsible than any other justice for the relentless legal march of the sexual…
By Jonathon Van Maren Abortion activists are afraid that Donald Trump’s presidency could end legal abortion in America. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, and to be honest, I think that abortion activists are perhaps overstating the case. For starters, they need to overstate their case—it’s true that pro-lifers are pressing their advantage…
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.