The evangelicals and politics angle to the 2024 election just got more interesting! 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 […]
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“And Pharaoh hardened his heart”: Will Donald Trump’s abortion claims on “Meet the Press” open a new lane for Ron DeSantis?
During the August 2023 GOP presidential debate, Nikki Haley said that Americans “need to stop demonizing” the issue of abortion. Watch: Most conservative evangelicals I know side with Pence in this debate. Haley repeated this argument over the weekend at […]
Environmentalism as the next pro-life movement?
According to Harvard’s Chika O. Okafor, the next pro-life argument will be green. Here is his piece at Lebanon (NH) Valley News:
A pro-life conservative and a pro-choice liberal find common ground on a post-Dobbs family policy
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 […]
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 […]
How we talk about human life matters
What is a human life worth? And whose life is important? The news are filled with stories that reveal a callous and utilitarian worldview, one that instead of engaging with suffering and pain, judges the lives of the sufferers worth […]
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 […]
Can pro-lifers on abortion and Democratic Socialists work together in Brazil?
Check out this very interesting piece at Jacobin by historian Travis Knoll: In short, [Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva] respects religion without instrumentalizing or being instrumentalized by it. Such alliances have come with serious challenges, especially on sexual […]
House passes a resolution condemning attacks on anti-abortion facilities and groups
Last week the House of Representatives passed H.Con Res. 3 “expressing the sense of Congress condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches. Here is some of the text: Whereas since the May 2, 2022, leak of the […]
The Christian Right rallies around Herschel Walker
Here is Brian Kaylor at Word & Way: On the morning after an explosive news report that U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, the Georgia Republican attended a closed prayer event at First Baptist Church in […]
Send it back to the states: Kansas rejects an amendment to restrict abortion rights
Will the overturning of Roe v. Wade end abortion in America? No. Decisions concerning abortion rights will now be settled in the individual states. Yesterday Kansas decided to support abortion rights. Here is The Washington Post: In a major victory […]
More on Jim Harbaugh’s pro-life views
Last week we did a post on the University of Michigan football coach’s speech at a pro-life event sponsored by Michigan Catholics. In the days since that speech, Harbaugh has elaborated on his pro-life views. Here is ESPN: Michigan football coach […]
Jim Harbaugh: Pro-lifer
The University of Michigan football coach spoke at a pro-life event in Michigan this week. Here is Detroit Catholic: Fr. John Riccardo and coach Jim Harbaugh, two well-known names in their respective professions, were the keynote speakers July 17 during […]
We lifted the Current paywall for this week’s forum “The End of Roe”
Good morning. I hope you will spend some time this week checking out Current‘s four day series on the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Today, Monday, we have Felicia Song, Randall Balmer, David Tucker, Una Cadegan, and John Haas. And […]
Better family policies will reduce abortions
As Fordham’s Charles Camosy writes, there is “plenty of evidence” to support this claim. Here is a taste of his piece at Religion News Service: …abortion rates (per 1,000 women 15-49) in pro-choice states such as New York (20.3) and […]
On abortion, the Trump court evangelicals need the Supreme Court. On gun violence, all they have are “thoughts and prayers.”
If you read my Current piece on Thursday or Dan Williams’s piece today and want another example of the inherent contradiction in the Christian pro-life movement, just read the recent e-mail Trump court evangelical Paula White-Cain’s “National Faith Advisory Board‘ […]
On “thoughts and prayers” and “God-given rights”
I know I just reposted this piece a few days ago after the Buffalo shooting, but it continues to represent my thinking about these mass shootings. Here is what I wrote at The Washington Post in August 2019: In the […]
“Economically vulnerable people of color are significantly more anti-abortion than rich white folks are”
Here is Fordham University moral philosopher Charles Camosy at Religion News Service: Stop me if you’ve heard claims like these since Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion was leaked: “We need to center the stories of the economically vulnerable and […]
Pro-lifers attack pro-life Christian pregnancy centers
This is what happens when you mix anti-intellectual populism and the anti-abortion movement. Emily Belz reports at Christianity Today. Her editors have chosen a polite and civil title for her piece: “The Supreme Court Leak Was an Unplanned Complication for […]
Smart people talking about abortion
First, let me call your attention to Current contributing editor Daniel K. Williams‘s piece today at The Atlantic: “This Really is a Different Pro-Life Movement.” A taste: The enthusiastic embrace of the movement by white evangelicals in the Bible Belt […]