The Truth About Alabama’s Ruling on IVF

The arguments for IVF stand or fall on the merits, not the religious identity (or lack thereof) of those making them.

Ryan T. Anderson
First Things

During the George W. Bush administration, Americans were repeatedly warned about Christian fascists or theocrats threatening to take over America. Now we’re told Christian Nationalists will be running the second Trump administration and imperiling all we hold dear as Americans.

Ruth Marcus opened a recent Washington Post column with a “welcome to the theocracy.” She was referring to an opinion by Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker on a state constitutional amendment regarding “the sanctity of unborn life” as applied to IVF embryos. Justice Parker had cited various sources in the Jewish and Christian traditions to explain the roots of “sanctity.”

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In his column this week, George Weigel decries the gender ideology now infesting the Department of State.

For The Catholic Thing, Francis X. Mayer writes about the need for a Confessing Church.

For WORLD Opinions, Andrew T. Walker writes about the need for education about the dangers of IVF.

Also for WORLD, Carl R. Trueman writes that American evangelicalism needs to look to the great historic creeds and confessions of the Church.

Carrie Gress writes for The Federalist about how a nineteenth-century black painter used landscapes to chronicle the underground railroad.

Carrie went on the Girlboss, Interrupted podcast to discuss her recent book, The End of Woman: How Smashing The Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us.

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Undercover and Alone: Pregnant at a D.C. Abortion Clinic

On the new episode of the Edify podcast, Mary FioRito interviewed Monica Snyder about her undercover experience in abortion clinics and her work as Executive Director of Secular Pro-Life.

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