By Jonathon Van Maren In the Republic of Ireland, the news has gone from bad to worse. From the Iona Institute: Minister Simon Harris has now a more fleshed out version of the upcoming abortion law and it is even worse than the previous the more bare-bones heads of legislation published a few months ago. The…
By Jonathon Van Maren In 2009, the liberal lioness of the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sat down with Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine for a freewheeling conversation on a range of issues, including the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. During the course of that discussion, the notorious RBG noted…
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 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 It has to be said: If Donald Trump had not been elected president of the United States, Neil Gorsuch would not be on the Supreme Court. And if Merrick Garland had been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice instead of Gorsuch, the pro-life movement would have suffered a devastating loss today,…
By Jonathon Van Maren With the nearly non-stop passage of pro-life legislation on the state level across the U.S. since 2018 began, many people justifiably ask whether that legislation is symbolic, merely intended to educate the public due to the certainty that it will be overturned by the courts, or whether it is actually effective…
By Jonathon Van Maren American Christians have just secured one of the most consequential legal victories for religious liberty in decades, and the first major victory since the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015: The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled for Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in his long battle to…
In one sweeping, brutal decision, Canada’s Supreme Court has tossed out all laws restricting euthanasia and assisted suicide. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition joined Jonathon to talk about what it all means.
Dr. Jacqueline Harvey is a statistician who fights for the rights of the disabled, the elderly, and the pre-born. She often testifies on behalf of pro-life laws around the country, and has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States. She joined Jonathon to talk about how to find the truth amid all…