By Ecce Verum
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09.28.24
Last time, we explored a simple way to show someone that "pro-life except for rape and incest" is not really pro-life. Just ask him if the same circumstance that he thinks justifies abortion would also justify the killing of a two-year-old.
By Ecce Verum
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09.26.24
Last time, we discussed the reason why you cannot be "pro-life except for rape and incest." This is because, if you believe that circumstances of conception can be more significant than the innate value of the baby's life, then you really do not value the baby's life according to its true nature. Life is an inestimably valuable gift from God.
By Ecce Verum
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09.25.24
As I’ve worked in pro-life ministry and talked with many people about abortion, I've noticed that the basic positions on the matter tend to fall into three main groups. On one side, I hear shouts of "my body, my choice!" and "abortion is healthcare!"
By Ecce Verum
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09.24.24
Whether motivated by a concern for public image or other various emasculating considerations, the mainstream pro-life movement has often shied away from endorsing the logical conclusion of its whole position: If the unborn are people, then killing them is murder, and thus those who kill them should receive legal repercussions.
By Ecce Verum
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09.20.24
Fetal personhood laws could also impact contraception access, given that some members of the anti-abortion movement argue that IUDs and the emergency contraception Plan B can prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg and violate personhood, explains Mary Ziegler, an abortion law historian at the University of California, Davis, School of Law.
By Ecce Verum
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09.19.24
Not long ago, I lamented the Massachusetts legislature's bill attempt to redefine the nature of parenting. Touted as a needed "tune-up" to "outdated norms" in current family law, the bill was written to carefully scrub out offensive, archaic words like "paternity" and replace them with innocuous, up-to-date terms like "parentage."
By Ecce Verum
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09.17.24
For all that Dobbs did for the fight for life, there's one issue that it conspicuously avoided—whether the unborn are in fact human persons. Dobbs repeatedly made reference to supposed "fetal life," but refused to claim that this fetal life was the life of a person and thus entitled to protection.
By Ecce Verum
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09.12.24
A huge block of Americans (about another third) voted intermittently, which means that elections can often be determined by the intermittent voters when they decide to show up. In my efforts to convince all the part-timer voters out there to level up, I dealt with the common argument that "my single vote doesn't matter."
By Ecce Verum
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09.05.24
Pew Research recently published a report of U.S. voter turnout, observing that the last three national elections ('18, '20, and '22) displayed some of the highest turnout of the century.
By Ecce Verum
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08.29.24
If you can bear it, mentally jump back a few years to the time when Covid hysteria reigned supreme. Recall the slogan we constantly heard—"Mask up and stay safe, everyone!" I may have been the only one, but I did find this word choice a little odd. Isn't "stay healthy" the appropriate thing to say during the onset of a disease?
By Ecce Verum
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08.23.24
In Part 1, I relayed a conversation I had with a man on an airplane who recited the standard line about abortion being a "woman's choice" to justify his lack of opinion on the matter. I expressed my recent conviction about how wrong this perspective is, as well as my growing frustration with men who shirk their responsibility to speak up for the vulnerable.
By Ecce Verum
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08.19.24
On a recent flight across the country, I sat next to a man who was probably in his late 20s or early 30s. We'll call him Joe. Joe seemed amiable and outgoing enough—he even threw in a friendly curse word here and there. So, as I usually do on airplane flights, I engaged my fellow passenger in conversation about a topic of real significance. I asked Joe about his opinion on abortion.
By Ecce Verum
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08.17.24
hicago has found a convenient time to finally do something about a homeless encampment—one that city leadership has already allowed to exist for years. For several years, a narrow strip of land nestled next to the Dan Ryan Expressway and Roosevelt road has been home to a veritable "tent city," one which has boasted up to 20–30 residents at times. However, a couple months before the Democratic National Convention is set to commence in Chicago, the city decided to permanently shut down this settlement.
By Ecce Verum
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08.09.24
In April of this year, I wrote an article urging conservatives to fight corporate wokeism from the bottom-up. Remember: businesses only do what you pay them to do. Now, I'm happy to announce that in June, we saw yet another great example of this strategy put into practice...
By Ecce Verum
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07.22.24
I regularly write articles about shocking cultural developments, and by now I'm (sadly) somewhat used to it. Evil men go from bad to worse just like 2 Timothy 3:13 says, and while sin never ultimately gets less hateful, it does tend to get somewhat less surprising as time goes on. However, in June of this year, the Massachusetts House passed a bill that shocked even me.
