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Be a Pro-Life Superhero!
By Judie Brown In the commentary “5 Ways to Help Your Child Become a Faith-Filled and Pro-Life Superhero,” Susan Ciancio struck gold, not just for young people but for you and me. Expanding on this theme, I would like to invite the reader of this commentary to look around at the world in which you live. While we often read stories to children, we are living our personal stories every day of our...
Loathing the Individual Human Person
By Judie Brown To loathe is to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance. This one word pretty much summarizes the attitude of those who cannot stand the possibility that even one preborn child will be protected by law. But beneath the obvious disdain...
Pillaging Truth
By Judie Brown To pillage is to plunder ruthlessly, as in destroying truth with deadly fiction. And when it comes to the truth, these days it seems that the Politico website is at the head of the class. Whether writing about mail-order abortion pills or the latest...
The Middle Way
By Judie Brown The upcoming Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has many pro-life people all atwitter. Leaked information aside, there are so many ways the decision might go that it is hard to put your best guess forward. Yet in a recent...
Venom of Disdain
By Judie Brown Venom, a toxin or poison that can kill or maim, can be contracted from a snake bite. But C.S. Lewis reminds us that there are other ways to be poisoned, including the “evil enchantment of worldliness.” Indeed, when anyone properly considers the disdain...
America’s National Cancer
By Judie Brown Human beings are gifted with a conscience. Writing about this human asset, St. John Paul II taught in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth): “Although each individual has a right to be respected in his own journey in search of the...
Does Abortion Reduce Welfare Costs?
By Brian Clowes, PhD Supporters of abortion tend to lack foresight and misunderstand human nature. These defects inevitably lead to many cases of the “law of unintended consequences.” One example of this lack of foresight is the claim that when the government pays for...