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Leading medical experts speaking at a major International Symposium on Excellence in Maternal Healthcare held in Dublin have concluded that ‘direct abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a mother’.

About 140 Irish medical…

How far would you go to be at the bedside of a loved one who’s in critical condition—dying, really, from a brutal car accident? How far would you go—or could you go—if you yourself had an ear that was almost torn off, a nose that was almost…

On September 10 Washington Post “fact checker” Josh Hicks picked apart the Susan B. Anthony List ad featuring abortion survivor Melissa Ohden, which called out Barack Obama for voting against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act four…

As a comedian, Steven Crowder rubs me the wrong way. But an article he published on Fox last week (which, unfortunately shares some of the same characteristics of his comedy that bug me) is nevertheless a must-read on why starting marriage the…

I am in Washington Friday and Saturday with Ben Johnson at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit. This annual event is something I would encourage anyone to attend to get a boost about the vitality, depth and strong principles of the…

A Daily Beast reporter who sat down with a religious conservative at the Republican National Convention last month gave us all a peek at just how effective the media blackout on the HHS mandate has been.

In a live broadcast, the interviewer asked…

Caroline Kennedy speaking at the DNC: As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously. And today it is under attack. This year alone, more than a dozen states have passed more than 40 restrictions on women’s access to reproductive health…

Ever had a yearning to boil a frog? Me neither. If I DID want to (hypothetically speaking OF COURSE), 19th-century science suggests that the best way to do it is to put the frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat. If poor little Kermit was…

Jim Hughes is the president of Canada’s National pro-life political organization and a vice-president of International Right to Life. He is one of the great veterans of the pro-life movement, both in Canada and internationally.

Both Jim and I…

(From the Urban Dictionary:

throw under the bus

1. To denounce and reject a friend, mentor, relative, colleague, or casual acquaintance for the sake of political expediency. )

Hollywood stars may be allowed to disagree with their families, but…

There is something very, very wrong within the US Catholic Church and in much of the other developed nations when nuns can speak in support of the Democrats at their convention and elsewhere and give the bizarre answers that Sr. Simone Campbell did…

In recent election cycles, Democrats have made a series of ham-handed attempts to convince voters that they would actually do a better job lowering abortion rates than Republicans have. In 2004, Sojourners ran an article by Glen Harold Stassen which…

The pink, sparkly ballet shoe [pictured above] was hurled towards David Bereit, one of America’s most outspoken anti-abortion advocates, on Saturday night…

The shoe’s owner, Megan Clement-Couzner [pictured right] – who belongs to the Sydney…

When even liberals and the mainstream media think the Democratic National Convention has turned into an abortion-palooza, it must really be blatant.

Apparently even ideologically aligned reporters have their breaking point on abortion promotion. To…