Tag: Pro-life
Simcha Fisher: American pro-lifers are finally free
Now that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are willing to fake an interest in being pro-life, American pro-lifers are politically homeless. We’re finally free—free to invest our energies elsewhere, writes Simcha Fisher.
Sydney’s walk for life
Now in its second year, hope will be a running theme at Sydney’s Walk for Life on 21 September seeking to defend the lives of those who cannot speak for themselves.
‘Born alive’ bills show the ghoulish logic of anti-life ideologues
Queensland law currently requires a lesser standard of care to be provided to babies “born alive” after abortion than to baby animals of the same gestational age. Yet anti-life ideologues can’t bear to look at what their positions really entail, or the whole abortion industry would fall apart in a mess of contradictions, writes Monica Doumit
Adelaide academic Joanna Howe wins victory for pro-life advocacy
Law professor Joanna Howe hopes her “incredibly gruelling fight” to continue her research on abortion will be a blow to cancel culture and a win for free speech, after she won a Fair Work Commission case against the University of Adelaide.
Surrogacy is no solution for women in poverty
Australians are the highest per capita users of overseas surrogates. We can do better for poor women overseas than suggesting they lift themselves out of poverty by being surrogates for wealthy, Australian couples, writes Monica Doumit.
Vexillology, horsefeathers, and “pro-choice” dishonesty
The targeting of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over his flying of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag is just the latest dishonest episode in the history of abortion.
In a world of counterfeits, real choice is known by what...
The task for the pro-life movement in the coming years will be demonstrating authentic choice in a world swimming in counterfeits. But how? writes Monica Doumit.
Archbishop Porteous: May our culture rediscover the wonder of every human...
While the conception of every new life awaits the moment of birth which brings joy for the couple as they hold their new child in awe, there is something very dark and disturbing sweeping the world of our time. It is the culture of abortion, a culture of death, Archbishop Julian Porteous said in his address on the day of the unborn child.
Parliamentarian, real estate guru awarded papal knighthoods
A business leader and former parliamentarian have received papal honours for decades of commitment to the faith and the church in Sydney.
Cherish kids, faith, pro-life president says
“Build it, and they will come.” Mere months after Campion College blessed its new academic centre and great hall, the college has enjoyed its first visit from a head of state: Hungarian president Katalin Novák.
Social media a gift to next pro-life generation
Social media has enabled pro-life activists to reach new audiences directly and find their voices, young attendees were told at “Life on the Line,” a pro-life conference held at Campion College on 13 October.
George Weigel: High stakes in moral theology debates
As the estimable Larry Chapp recently put it on his blog, Gaudium et Spes 22, “the deepest, most important, most contentious, most divisive, and most destructive debates [after Vatican II] surrounded moral theology, especially after Humanae Vitae and the massive dissent from it that followed.”