Posts by Melanie Wade

By Carlos Beltramo, Ph.D. | PRI European Office, originally published May 6, 2024 “Ideas have Consequences,” warned Richard Weaver.  And bad ideas have had very bad consequences, especially when it comes to population. Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, published in 1968, was one of the worst ideas ever to come from the mind of man. It…

By Alana Semuels, published May 13, 2024, AOL.com/TIME Miannica Frison was in the throes of labor in 2020 when a nurse entered her room at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. Frison was screaming in pain. But rather than see how she could help, Frison recalls, the nurse said she heard Frison was having her third…

So-called ‘abortion shield laws’ will prevent pro-life states and their citizens from holding abortionists accountable. By Guzi He, published May 13, 2024, The Federalist Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, pro-abortion states have begun devising measures to shelter abortionists whose operations were hampered by states that chose to protect unborn life. These so-called “abortion…

By Kristan Hawkins, originally published May 10, 2024, updated May 13, 2024, Newsweek – Opinion As someone whose family once proudly embraced the Democratic Party, I mourn the decision by three Democratic presidents to make the loss of life made into a business by unleashing the chemical abortion pill on the U.S. market. Chemical abortion pills,…

“The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral -a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body. . . The angels have not been blessed with such…

This time it is back to Hamilton County. Reported by our friends at Columbus RTL Nothing is sacred to the abortion-obsessed at the ACLU. They filed their first lawsuit attacking Ohio’s law as it relates to informed consent before an abortion on Good Friday. Today, just days before Mother’s Day, they filed another motion that would eliminate…

By Michelle Kirtley, originally published May 8, 2024, Public Discourse The public bioethics conversations of the twenty-first century will be much more nuanced and complicated than the abortion debate of the last fifty years. If we want to speak thoughtfully about how these and other technologies are shaping our future, we will need to move…

By Noelle Mering, originally published May 6, 2022, The American Mind A subversive message for Mother’s Day “A face only a mother could love” is a funny old idiom to describe a homely person. On the surface, the saying indicates a mother’s obliviousness to the plain reality that everyone else sees. But it’s not the…

Why do we let depressed young women choose euthanasia? By Katrina Trinko, originally published May 5, 2024, The Daily Signal Once, we told stories of rescuing women in distress. Now, we hand them a prescription for assisted suicide. Two young women in the Netherlands, Jolanda Fun and Zoraya ter Beek, have recently done media interviews explaining…

By Michael Cook, originally published April 16, 2024, Mercator Fifty years ago died one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. You have probably never heard of Stanisława Leszczyńska. Few people have. Yet she was a model of heroism and humanity who should be acclaimed around the globe. Stanisława was a Polish midwife…