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Decades After the Pill Riled America, Proposed Easier Access Sparks Little Furor May. 16, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing birth-control pills to be sold without a pr... Read More
Judicial Politics Apr. 06, 2023
I'm the last person to be cheering the politicization of judicial selections. I'm old enough to reme... Read More
DeSantis the Realist Jan. 23, 2023
There are two poles in Republican foreign-policy thought, represented by the two most recent GOP pre... Read More
The Struggle to Protect Life Continues Jan. 18, 2023
Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thous... Read More
Pending Gun Case Is Again Testing Which Century This Supreme Court Lives In Jan. 17, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court last year issued a potentially devastating ruling for communities beleaguered... Read More
The Extreme Court Knows No Bounds Dec. 14, 2022
The noise of democracy fills the Capitol, while across First Street, the sound of silence rules at t... Read More
Pro-Lifers Need a New Strategy Nov. 18, 2022
What is the pro-life movement? I've always imagined it to be broader than just efforts to make abort... Read More
Once Again, America Is Reminded That the Supreme Court Is a Broken Institution. Oct. 27, 2022
Two minor but telling developments this week provide dismal reminders that the U.S. Supreme Court is... Read More
Will the Conservative Momentum at the Supreme Court Continue This Term? Sep. 30, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court begins hearing cases for its new term, following its customary summer recess,... Read More
Flip, Flop or Fail Aug. 19, 2022
About 20 years ago, I was covering the governing body of a local suburb. One cool evening in early f... Read More
What About Embryos? Aug. 18, 2022
Such is the state of the Republican Party that only eight of its 210 House members voted yes on a bi... Read More
When Does Life Begin? Aug. 11, 2022
WASHINGTON — Frankly, I was not surprised by the abortion vote in conservative Kansas last wee... Read More
Roe Haunts From Its Grave Aug. 11, 2022
The Supreme Court's recent Dobbs opinion, reversing the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion, which unle... Read More
Federal Abortion-Rights Suit in Idaho Is on Solid Medical and Constitutional Ground Aug. 09, 2022
The Supreme Court's ruling in June overturning Roe v. Wade immediately ushered in massive changes in... Read More
Beware What You Wish For ... Aug. 06, 2022
Two days after Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ban on abortion in their state, the other fro... Read More
Kansas, My Kansas! Aug. 05, 2022
In Kansas, where the corn is as high as a state rep's teenage girlfriend, voters stampeded the polls... Read More
Abortion-Rights Victory in Red-State Kansas Confirms This Is America's Stance Aug. 04, 2022
For the first time since the Supreme Court revoked the biological freedom of millions of American wo... Read More
Abortion, Democracy and History Jul. 27, 2022
When Abraham Lincoln gave his famous address in Peoria, Illinois in 1854, slavery was the issue tear... Read More
Even With This Supreme Court, Same-Sex Marriage Is Probably Safe Jul. 20, 2022
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has many hardline conservatives itching to scrap ... Read More
A Pro-Lifer and a Pro-Choicer Do Lunch Jul. 15, 2022
The day Dobbs was handed down, I happened to be lunching with a new friend who was upset and angry o... Read More
