Posts by Melanie Wade

June 22, 2024 Two Years Without Roe Two years ago, today, the staff of Cincinnati Right to Life gathered around a laptop, accessing WIFI from our summer intern’s personal hotspot. Somehow, as “luck would have it,” at that exact moment of the release of the Dobbs decision, the internet went out in our office. (The WIFI…

By Public Discourse, originally published June 17, 2024 Dear reader, as you step away from my story, I have two requests: first, believe women when they tell you about sexual violence. And second, recognize that abortion coercion is real.  Editors’ Note: Yesterday, we published a Manifesto for a post-Dobbs pro-life America which argued for a new focus…

By Monica Snyder, Charles C. Camosy and Eric Scheidler, originally published June 16, 2024, Public Discourse While we continue to seek ways to extend robust legal protection to prenatal children and to persuade our pro-choice brothers and sisters that such laws are necessary to forge a truly just society, we should all be able to come together to stop…

On Monday, we honor the two-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe. Twenty-four months later, the dust still has not settled from this historic Supreme Court decision. In fact there now seems to be a dust-storm. We know this all too well in Ohio with the crushing defeat of Issue 1 in November of 2023.…

Cincinnati Right to Life and Dayton Right to Life are joining forces again this year to have a presence at the grocery giant’s annual shareholders meeting, this Thursday, June 27th from 11am-1pm. Shortly after the Dobbs decision was announced in 2022, Kroger joined dozens of publicly held companies announcing they would pay up to $4000 in…

Laura Strietmann, Contributor, originally published June 14, 2024, Messenger Jubilation filled the hearts of pro-lifers two years ago in the month that the Catholic Church dedicates to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On June 24, 2022 a 50-year goal of the movement was reached when the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the…

By Nathanael Blake, originally published June 12, 2024, The Public Discourse The law is a teacher, and so is social experience. A society in which abortion is not only legal, but common and easily available, teaches people to regard it as not a big deal. In contrast, restricting abortion sends the message that it is, at…

By Jeff Bradford for TOWNHALL I say “loved” because he passed away a few years ago. My family still gathers on Father’s Day to cook a big meal for each other, just like my dad did for us. He made us feel loved, known and led like nobody else could have. But like every dad, he was imperfect. I…

By ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS, Originally Published by National Review Society should recognize that both parents have duties to their unborn children. When you hear the phrase “women’s rights,” what comes to mind? In the U.S., at least, many of us likely think not of the right to vote or the right to seek an education — rights that…

June 13, 2024-It is a sad day for women and babies in America as the dangerous chemical abortion regime will remain legal through 10 weeks gestation after the Supreme Court’s decision in the FDA v. AHM court case. The ruling was based on standing and not merit, which will allow other future cases on chemical abortion to come…