Here we go again. A newly released document indicates that Judge Samuel Alito once formulated a plan for the “eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade,” which might have resulted in the horror — dreadful to contemplate — of unemployed abortionists. The good Darwinists of the U.S. Supreme Court had decided that a human fetus is... Read More

In his famous essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell analyzed the corrupting influence of dishonest politics on the way we speak and think. There is no better example than the effect abortion has had on our language. Though abortion — including the killing of viable infants at the verge of birth — is... Read More

Once in a while a phrase will stick in my mind because of its odd implications. A few weeks ago I read a book that remarked in passing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade had made women “the arbiters of their own pregnancies.” The more I think of it, the stranger... Read More

According to a recent article in the New York Times, scientists have found that the frolicsome dolphin, the most intelligent and beloved of marine mammals, has “an unexplained darker side”: it kills members of its own species for no apparent reason. Dead porpoises and young dolphins have washed up on shore bearing the teeth marks... Read More

Many years ago, a friend shocked me by saying: “If my wife got pregnant now, I’d make her get an abortion.” His wife, who was present, shocked me by not demurring. The “right to choose” is nominally a woman’s. But in real life, the decision is usually made by the man, whether by dominating her... Read More