Today The Washington Post is running a conversation on abortion and family policy between conservative columnist Marc A. Thiessen and liberal columnist Alyssa Rosenberg. We need more discussions like this. Here is a taste of their piece, “We disagree on […]
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Nikki Haley is “no moderate on abortion.” Nikki Haley is “no pro-life champion.”
When I heard former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley talk about abortion at the first GOP presidential debate earlier this month I wrote: Nikki Haley, the only woman on the stage, was the most reasonable and […]
Post-Roe abortion debate is coming to Pennsylvania
Prior to the Dobbs decision no one really cared about state Supreme Court races. They do now. Here is Holly Otterbein at Politico: Less than a month after their double-digit victory on abortion rights in Ohio, Democrats are preparing to […]
Imagine if the Christian right started offering mere ‘thoughts and prayers’ to end abortion
Four dead at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville today. That’s the 470th mass shooting in the United States this year–and it’s only August. I wrote this piece at The Washington Post after the 2019 shootings in El Paso, Texas […]
Can one oppose abortion and still be a democratic socialist?
Check out Matt McManus‘s review of Sohrab Ahmari’s Tryanny , Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It at Jacobin. As I noted in an earlier post, socialists really like this book despite Ahmari’s social conservatism. […]
The GOP candidates debate abortion tonight
The GOP presidential candidates came out swinging tonight: Once these candidates got their prepared zingers out of the way, they settled down to have a fairly civil debate on abortion. (This may be becacuse the loud-mouthed Vivek Ramaswamy was not […]
Siena-New York Times poll shows Trump with a massive lead
The poll was conducted from July 23-27 among “the likely electorate in the Republican primary”: Other observations: The poll asked GOP primary voters about where they get their news. Here are the results:
Always let your conscience be your guide
A recent kerfuffle between pro-abortion rights Catholic legislators and the American Catholic bishops offers a convenient reason to consider a pesky little word: conscience. The legislators cite the Catholic Catechism (paragraph 1790) to the effect that a “human being must […]
Nikki Haley is running as a common sense conservative in a political party that has abandoned common sense
Former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley was in Washington D.C. yesterday to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference. Her walkout music was Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Watch: Like some of the […]
Lindsey Graham keeps pushing his 15-week abortion ban
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham came to pay his respects to the Christian Right at the rally known as “Road to Majority.” Abortion was the focus of his speech. Watch: Graham attacks a new bill introduced by House Democrats called […]
Mike Pence at Road to Majority 2023
Mike Pence was the first 2024 GOP presidential candidate to speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference this weekend. Pence’s walkout music was Kid Rock’s “Born Free.” The applause was sparse. Watch his speech: After listening […]
Alveda King on those who say America is not a Christian nation: “What malarkey!”
Avelda King is Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece, outspoken leader of the Christian Right, and Trump court evangelical. Watch her speech at Ralph Reed’s “Road to Majority 2023” conference today: A few comments: King believes she is an officer in […]
The Christian Right “Road to Majority” conference opens with a sermon: “Blacks have become the cheap prostitutes of the Democratic Party”
Ralph Reed’s Christian Right gathering this weekend began with a sermon by Black preacher John M. Amanchukwu. Amanchukwu is a former North Carolina State football player, a graduate of Liberty University, and appears on shows such as The Charlie Kirk […]
Current writers join a Politico forum on post-Roe America
Last year Politico asked twenty thinkers to respond to the end of Roe v. Wade. Today Politico asked the same twenty people to reflect on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. Current editors and […]
The Unexpected Complications of the Abortion Debate
Review: Roe: The History of a National Obsession by Mary Ziegler. Yale University Press, 2023. 248 pp., $27.00 The first time I heard Mary Ziegler present her scholarship on abortion was more than a decade ago, before she had published […]
Abortion, slavery, and Lincoln
When Donald Trump recently came out against any kind of federal ban on abortion he was on the receiving end of ire from various pro-life groups. Most notably the Susan B. Anthony List said a position like Trump’s is a […]
Matthew Loftus in Plough: “Does Abortion Spare the Child Pain?”
Matthew Loftus, a practicing physician in family medicine in both the U.S. and East Africa, has a powerful essay today in Plough. The questions he raises are, needless to say, relevant in the on-going conversations surrounding abortion. His focus is […]
Should women who have abortions get the death penalty? 21 South Carolina legislators think they should
Have you heard about the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023? Twenty-one Republicans in the South Carolina General Assembly are supporting it. Here is Stephen Neukam at The Hill: Republican lawmakers in South Carolina are considering a change […]
Abortion and the State of the Union address
For some, Joe Biden is an accomplice to murder. They believe that the president confirmed this once again in Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address: For others, Biden did not spend enough time on abortion rights. And then there […]
Equity and Justice at a Harvard Abortion Conference
Last week I attended a conference on abortion that was held at Harvard University. It was a fascinating conference, partly because it brought together both supporters and opponents of legal abortion who in many cases shared a belief in expanded […]