The Effect of Devaluing Life: Another Woman Receives Empathy for Murdering Her Child

In modern-day America, unborn babies are constantly subjugated to clinical labels such as “fetus,” “embryo,” “zygote,” or even just “tissue.” At the other end of life, the elderly and disabled are deemed “inconvenient,” “burdensome,” or “unable to contribute to society.” Our culture claims that unborn babies should be killed in the womb and that seniors […]

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hyde Amendment

Just three years after the nationwide legalization of abortion in 1973 with the Roe v. Wade decision, freshman Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois observed a problem: American taxpayers were being forced to pay for abortions through federally funded healthcare plans like Medicaid. More than that, he knew that whatever the government pays for, it encourages.   […]