Does Abortion Spare the Child Pain?
In discussions surrounding abortion and disabilities, we should make sure we're asking the right questions.
In discussions surrounding abortion and disabilities, we should make sure we're asking the right questions.
The possibility of abortion has allowed for a great "reaching in" of almost every form of prototypical male coercion, precisely at the moment in which a woman is most obviously powerful in her difference as mother—obliging, requiring, and enforcing the transformation of all men within her vicinity into servants.
Written testimony of Christina Francis, MD for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Commitzee on Energy and Commerce hearing on "Roe Reversal: The Impacts of Taking Away the Constitutional Right to Abortion."
Abortion is no longer a constitutional "right" in the United States.
Several years ago, as I have heard tell, my formidable old professor of medieval Italian literature, Robert Hollander, was reading Chaucer, and he fell to weeping because the Christian faith that animated the poet was so beautiful, and he, the professor, could not share it.
Ever since a draft copy of the Supreme Court decision regarding abortion has been leaked, social media has been awash with arguments and testimonies from both sides.
I first met Erika Bachiochi — then Erika Schubert — in July 1998, when she was my student in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Cracow.
To all of you I say: do not be victims of the culture.
The first reading in today’s Mass (1 Kings 17:10-16) speaks to us of the paradox of poverty.