I’ll be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of the March for Life. Still, I’d never been, so I was excited to take the opportunity to go for the first time last year. Now, big gatherings aren’t exactly my thing, and the March is roughly 20 times the size of … Read More
Overpopulation Can’t Justify Abortion
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. It might surprise you to know that tech giants Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Jack Ma (Alibaba) think the world is heading towards a population collapse. It would certainly surprise Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who gave a speech on her Instagram account earlier this year about how … Read More
Abortion and Moral Culpability
One of our best tools in conversations about abortion is Trot out a Toddler (TOAT). It’s really helpful because it communicates how we need to think about unborn humans if we admit that they’re persons. Once you accept the conclusion that the fetal human is a valuable person like us, … Read More
The Anatomy of a Pro-Life Conversation
I have decided to share with you a transcript of an email exchange I had over the course of a few weeks with a woman from Canada; the emails have been lightly edited for clarity. At different points, I’ll be sharing my thought process about what’s going on in the … Read More
Heartbeat Laws: What You Need to Know
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. Several states passed abortion restrictions in the last calendar year, and more are entertaining similar bills right now. Most of these laws, dubbed “heartbeat bills,” seek to restrict abortion after the fetus has a detectable heartbeat. All of these laws are in conflict with the … Read More
Does Your Image Need a Face-Lift?
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. “Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Socialism” “Don’t Apologize to the Mob” Do titles like this sound familiar? Sure, the content inside might be entertaining to those who agree, but if you spoke like that in a conversation, would you convince anyone? It’s really easy to forget the … Read More
The New York Abortion Law: Rhetoric and Reality
New York’s broad new abortion law, dubbed the “Reproductive Health Act,” was sold to the public as merely enshrining Roe v. Wade into state law. On the surface, it seems to do just that by extending abortion-on-demand to 24 weeks and allowing for exceptions beyond that point in cases where … Read More
When Is Abortion Fetal Euthanasia In Disguise?
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. Bioethics is a broad and expanding field of ethical inquiry into questions concerning human life, its beginning and end, and its interaction with medicine and other technologies. When I began my formal study of bioethics, I noticed that many issues were interrelated, and the issue … Read More
Am I a Father?
What does it mean to be a father? What does the tragedy of miscarriage tell us about the unborn? And does this give us insight about abortion? Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. This question — am I a father? — is one whose answer matters a great deal to me, … Read More