Yesterday Students for Life reported in a Facebook alert: Last night a disturbing “trending topic” emerged on Twitter. Most will probably know that Twitter is a service in which people give their thoughts, opinions or make statements in 140 characters or less. You can follow other people’s “tweets” or even follow a “trending topic.” Trending […]

Deal Hudson wrote a piece at Inside Catholic this week on Catholics and the death penalty:

I received the following email this week requesting my advice and received permission to pose the dilemma to my readers for theirs: I am a 66yo grandmother raising my 17yo granddaughter for 7 months. She was in horrible living and abusive conditions with her father and addict girlfriend. My conditions were that she bring her […]

A reader who works for New Mexico State University posed an interesting question in an email to me: “Now that the pro-lifers hold a slight lead in most popular opinion polls, how valuable is it really when it comes to turning hearts in a discussion?” S/he based her question on a recent study posted at […]

Read the following email chain… So what is the pro-life answer to the question, “Why don’t you people put up or shut up – pay for the care of pregnant mothers in crisis and adopt the unwanted or “defective” babies?”

We’re all used to pro-aborts avoiding the A-word by using the code word “choice.” But here’s a new one. Cory Gardner, who is running for Congress in CO-4 – and it totally avoids the topic of abortion altogether. In fact, you would think the ad is pro-family if you weren’t cynical enough to know its […]

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I cover story about “Saint Sarah” by religion editor Lisa Miller (who 3 weeks ago called the excommunication and reassignment of a Catholic nun for authorizing an abortion in a Catholic hospital