by Publius | Mar 6, 2020 | Grey Matter, History and Tradition, Politics and Goverment
By Leah Hickman| (Source) Since the United States Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, only seven of the 31 abortion cases to come before the high court had women as plaintiffs. All other plaintiffs have either been abortionists or abortion businesses. ...
by Publius | Feb 26, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Grey Matter, Politics and Goverment
By Mary Eberstadt| (Source) This essay is adapted from a speech delivered January 25, 2020, at the first annual meeting of The David Project, a new pro-life organization whose members represent every Ivy League campus. Who are the true radicals of our time? Not...
by Publius | Oct 16, 2019 | Family, Grey Matter
By Patrick Lee | (Source) In Human Embryos, Human Beings, A Scientific and Philosophical Approach philosopher Samuel Condic and Neurobiologist Maureen Condic advance a careful and detailed case for the proposition that a human being comes to be at fertilization,...
by Publius | Jul 17, 2018 | Family, Politics and Goverment
By John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera | (Source) A pro-choice doctor just made a case for not aborting children with Down syndrome. But his case needs to be better. By one estimate, about three-fourths of all pregnant women in the United States undergo prenatal...
by Publius | Sep 28, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Mary O’Callaghan | It’s tempting to make neat calculations based on what we know in the abstract about Down syndrome. But once an actual child enters into the equation—with all of his strengths and foibles, quirks and habits—we don’t get the answer we...