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38.1—Jan/Feb, 2025
Abortion’s Most Popular Thought Experiment
37.1—Jan/Feb, 2024
Rulers Ancient & Modern Who Kill the Innocent for Peace & Security
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
The Pregnancy Help Movement & the End of Big Abortion
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Prevarications About Abortion in the Highest Places
34.4—July/August, 2021
Recent Pro-life Legal Victories in Europe
34.4—July/August, 2021
Touchstone & the "Devout" Friends of Abortion
34.1—January/February, 2021
on Abortion & the Seductive Lie of Autonomous Freedom
34.1—January/February, 2021
on Fetal Pain & False Humanitarianism
33.4—July/August, 2020
A Plan to Show Students a Pro-life Film Exposes Academic Infidelity
33.1—January/February, 2020
on the Consequences of One Birth Before Roe v. Wade
32.6—November/December, 2019
32.5—September/October, 2019
The Precarious State of Germany's Pro-life Law
32.3—May/June, 2019
31.1—January/February, 2018
An Image of God by Sharon M. Leon
Beyond the Abortion Wars by Charles C. Camosy
Embryos Under the Microscope
by Jane Maienschein
30.3—May/June, 2017
on the Misuse of Property Rights to Justify Slavery & Abortion
29.4—July/August, 2016
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt
27.2—March/April, 2014
on C. S. Lewis & the New State Paganism
27.1—Jan/Feb, 2014
An Interview with Joseph M. Scheidler
27.1—Jan/Feb, 2014
How the U.S. Supreme Court Falsified the Record of Legislation Protecting Life
26.1—Jan/Feb, 2013
on the Move from Abortion to Infanticide
26.1—Jan/Feb, 2013
on Abortion as a Matter of National Welfare
24.2—March/April, 2011
An Interview with Hadley Arkes
24.1—January/February, 2011
How Planned Parenthood's Founder Played the Christians, and Won
23.5—September/October, 2010
Setting the Record Straight on Episcopal Duties Regarding Pro-Abortion Politicians
22.1—January/February, 2009
on Facing the Pain & Joy of the Right Choice
21.10—December, 2008
Big Bailouts & Culture War Maneuvers You Can Expect
21.5—June, 2008
Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice
by Francis J. Beckwith
21.1—January/February, 2008
The Persistence of Abortion & the Responsibilities of Christians
20.2—March, 2007
on the Foolproof Test for Paganism
20.1—January/February, 2007
20.1—January/February, 2007
How Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood
20.1—January/February, 2007
Surprise Child: Finding Hope in Unexpected Pregnancy
by Leslie Leyland Fields
20.1—January/February, 2007
Abortion & Richard Hays’s Moral Ambiguity
20.1—January/February, 2007
The Liberal Case Against Abortion
by Vasu Murti
20.1—January/February, 2007
The Demonic Voice Behind the "Right to Choose"
20.1—January/February, 2007
Dispelling the Myths of
Abortion History
by Joseph W. Dellapenna
19.9—November, 2006
The Physicians? Crusade Against Abortion
by Frederick N. Dyer
19.7—September, 2006
on Thinking About Abortion with Those Who Won’t
19.1—January/February, 2006
The Centrality of Motherhood Is Not Just an Idea
19.1—January/February, 2006
on Death & Seven of the Last Words of Socrates
17.8—October, 2004
On the Two Values that Matter Most
13.4—May, 2000
Science, Religion & the Right to Life
13.9—November, 2000
on the Language of Abortion
13.9—November, 2000
“Like a Startle . . . Like a Flinch”
on Abortion
14.3—April, 2001
14.4—May, 2001
on Abortion in the Real World
14.5—June, 2001
Mary Tyler Moore’s Autograph & What I Did with It
on Stem Cell Research
14.5—June, 2001
on the Past, Present & Future of Abortion
14.6—July/August, 2001
Three Bad Ideas for Women & What to Do About Them
14.6—July/August, 2001
on Abortion as a Matter of Ecology
15.4—May, 2002
on Abortion & Crime Reduction
16.1—January/February, 2003
on Abortion 30 Years After Roe v. Wade
16.1—January/February, 2003
on Respect for Abortionists
16.1—January/February, 2003
Forbidden Grief
by Theresa Burke, Ph.D.,
with David Reardon, Ph.D.
16.1—January/February, 2003
on Children Born of Rape or Incest
17.3—April, 2004
on Abortion Rhetoric & Common Sense
16.7—September, 2003
The Psychological Effects of Performing Abortions
16.7—September, 2003
on the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act
16.7—September, 2003
Abortion as a War Against Women
16.7—September, 2003
Denial & the Wages of Sin
17.1—January/February, 2004
on the Hardest of Abortion Cases
16.3—April, 2003
A Jesuit Says Goodbye to the Abortion Party
16.3—April, 2003
Media Bias & Blindness—And the Big Story They Missed
16.3—April, 2003
16.6—July/August, 2003
The Unnatural in Pursuit of the Unreal
A Defense of Abortion
by David Boonin
15.1—January/February, 2002
8.2—Spring, 1995
Abortion as a Challenge to Christian Orthodoxy
3.2—Spring-Summer, 1989
more from the online archives
32.1—January/February 2019
The Diabolical Failure of Leaders in the Present Crises by James M. Kushiner
30.3—May/June 2017
on the Misuse of Property Rights to Justify Slavery & Abortion by Robert Hart
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