For those of us who can't stand pink fluffy stuff, being more inclined towards the Gothic, the morbid - attuned to an awareness of the connection between desire and death, the ones who are alert to whispers of doom - who "see the skull beneath the skin" - the saints as represented on holy cards may sometimes seem foreign to us. Read more
First of all: there are many feminisms. What you learn about what feminist, or one feminist tradition, does not necessarily extend to cover all feminists or feminisms. Read more
Parents of special-needs children are concerned, and rightly so, about the new administration. It could be argued that there are both pros and cons, for the abortion issue: that while repealing the ACA will have bad results, at least Gorsuch is a better pick than might have been expected. It could be argued that Trump’s foreign policy is at heart no bloodier than US foreign policy has ever been: he’s just more blunt about it. But across the board, it... Read more
But the thing is, Trump is not a conservative. He's not even wobbling on the edge of being a conservative. The particular Catholic demographic that applauds Trump and follows such publications as LifeSite is not conservative, either Read more
So, are you a conservative? If so, I tip my hat to you (imagine me a sort of George Sand, riding by on horseback, as gentlemanly a lady as one might imagine). You are a rare bird, indeed, and probably not at home in the current political milieu. Read more
While I never hid the fact that I was critical of several aspects of the Women’s March – especially after the controversy about inclusion of pro-life feminists – I also was clear about my support for the overall intention of the March, as a protest against the Trump regime, and as a gesture in solidarity against inequality, injustice, and violence. Since the March, I have been happy to read a number of accounts of participants who were encouraged by the... Read more
It’s a given that being pro-life means defending the dignity of the unborn. But from a strict ethical and logical perspective, our defense of unborn humans is based on a premise to which we have already assented, as a starting point: that all life has value, and that we are bound in responsibility to safeguard the lives of our fellow-humans because we are all interconnected. Once you assent to that premise, the question that should arise, in any ethical dilemma,... Read more
We think abortion will end when women don’t feel they have to end their pregnancies to pursue their dreams. We want to help build a culture that supports women, valuing and caring for them in vulnerable moments when they have nowhere else to turn. Read more
If your response to these is braggadocio and insult ("Let them do what I did. I never waited for anyone to help me!"), know that you have been more fortunate than most, and you will almost certainly learn it the hard way when your suffering inevitably comes. Read more
Reprinted from the New Pro Life page There was a lot of discussion in our ranks, in the past month, about whether we would officially attend the Women’s March, or the March for Life, or both. It was decided ultimately that if as a group we could only make one march, it would be the one for life, though our concerns intersect with those of the women marching against Trump, also, and we think it unfortunate that there should be... Read more
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