We’ve been saying it for the last twenty-four hours. Now Mike Pence has joined us. Here is the former vice-president: “The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS […]
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Christian college professor: “I’m ashamed to be a Republican”
Byron Curtis is professor emeritus of biblical studies at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. In an op-ed today at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he makes a pro-life case for Kamala Harris. A taste: I’m a 46-year member of the Republican […]
Pope Francis: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are “against life”
On a recent flight from Singapore to Rome, Anna Matranga of CBS News had a question for Pope Francis: Your Holiness, you have always spoken in defence of the dignity of life. In Timor-Leste, which has a high birth rate, […]
Pro-life conservative evangelicals learn that Donald Trump’s “art of the deal” also applies to abortion
Donald Trump does not support Florida’s six-week ban on abortion. Here is Politico: Donald Trump says he doesn’t support the six-week abortion ban put in place by former ally Gov. Ron DeSantis in the former president’s adopted home state. But […]
JD Vance says Trump will veto a federal abortion ban. What are pro-life evangelicals saying?
On Friday, Donald Trump said that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” Conservative evangelicals responded. We covered it here. Today, JD Vance said that if Trump were president and congress sent him a national ban […]
What are evangelicals saying about Trump’s claim that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights?”
Earlier today, Donald Trump wrote: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” Such a claim, of course, puts pro-life conservatives in a difficult spot. Will they vote for Trump despite what appear to be his pro-choice […]
Raphael Warnock’s “American covenant” and where his vision for a Micah 6:8 nation goes off the rails
Raphael Warnock delivered a real stemwinder last night at the Democratic National Convention. Speeches like this remind me of why I felt compelled to argue in 2018 that the early civil rights movement provides the best historical model for evangelicals, […]
“Evangelicals for Harris” speakers named on the day after we learn more about Tim Walz’s extreme views on abortion
In his 2010 book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter argued that both the Christian Right and the Evangelical Left were guilty of […]
Yes, there is one pro-life party in this election
It’s just that you might never have heard of it–but you should.
Anti-abortion advocates want to keep a federal ban on abortion in the GOP platform despite Trump’s views
Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, believes that the issue of abortion in a post-Roe v. Wade America should be decided by the states. In other words, he does not support a federal ban on abortion. But here’s […]
Apparently Liberty University’s view on abortion does not even allow an exception for the life of the mother
Am I reading this Tweet correctly? It comes from the public voice of Liberty University–the Standing for Freedom Center. The pro-life movement is divided over whether abortions are morally permissible in cases of incest and rape, but Liberty University seems […]
Joe Biden’s pro-life legacy
Joe Biden can’t get a break right now. The economy is improving. We are living normal lives again. Infrastructure improvements have begun. Things aren’t perfect, but Biden has brought us back, and has brought us back stronger. His infrastructure spending […]
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: through an index darkly
Here is a glimpse of my forthcoming book through five entries in the index.
Infrastructure funding and the pro-life agenda
I wrote this piece for Religion News Service back in 2021. I am re-upping it today: In the early 19th century, during America’s first era of infrastructure development, Christians were some of the country’s strongest supporters of what were then […]
1 in 3 “evangelical” or “born again” Christians supported a right to abortion in Ohio; pro-choice governor wins in red Kentucky
An NBC news exit poll shows that 32% of white “evangelical” or “born again” Christians voted to enshrine the right to an abortion in the Ohio constitution. As expected, 68% of white evangelicals opposed the measure, but I was surprised […]
The pro-life movement has been “co-opted by GOP anti-abortion politics”
Bernard Prusak is the Raymond and Eleanor Smiley Chair in Business Ethics at John Carroll University. Commonweal has published his piece, “The Pro-Life Movement: Less Popular Than Ever?“, on the eve of the Ohio 1 abortion referendum. Here is a […]
“The only cause that really matters to most Republicans now is Trump himself.”
Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of the conservative National Review, believes Trump will “get away with snubbing conservatives on abortion.” Here is a taste of his piece at Politico: So far the reaction to Trump’s remarks has been muted on most […]
Another candidate has joined the race for the 2024 Democratic nomination. She’s an atheist, a leftist, and pro-life.
Introducing Terrisa Bukovinac. If you have the stomach for it, watch her presidential announcement below. Bukovinac is not a typical progressive who also happens to be pro-life. Rather, her entire campaign appears to be based on ending abortion. Her announcement […]
More evangelicals criticize Trump on abortion
We’ll have our regular evangelical roundup tomorrow, but here are a few more responses to Trump’s new view on abortion. (Get up to speed here and here and here.) Sean Feucht is trying to have it both ways: Al Mohler […]
Prolifers are outraged about Trump’s abortion comments on “Meet the Press”
I wrote yesterday: Essentially, Trump is throwing the pro-life movement under the bus. He and his team believe that they can win in 2024 with a more moderate pro-life view on abortion. To put this more crudely, pro-life conservative evangelicals […]