Defining Life, Defining Law

By |2024-03-08T09:30:37-06:00August 20th, 2023|Categories: Abortion, Christianity, Communio, Constitution, Rule of Law, Supreme Court|

When the law reckons with the matter of life, it inevitably reckons with its own foundation and its own essence. When we attempt to define life in law, in other words, we are necessarily, though implicitly, defining law in an analogous sense at the same time. The background assumption of my brief essay is that [...]

The Battle for Life After Dobbs

By |2023-06-20T14:57:22-05:00June 20th, 2023|Categories: Abortion, David Deavel, Education, Senior Contributors, Supreme Court|

It is the best of times and the worst of times for the pro-life movement. Though the historic Dobbs decision was a great legal victory, the cause for life continues. And it continues in both states that have severely limited abortion and those that have made it a kind of untouchable secular sacrament. The Supreme [...]

The Democracy of the Unborn

By |2023-01-30T14:21:36-06:00January 30th, 2023|Categories: Abortion, Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Liberalism, Timeless Essays, Tradition|

Society has been reduced to those living in the present; but in being reduced, it has excluded the democracy of the dead and unborn. We, in the present, must fight for this most obscure of all classes. In the abortion debate, one of the pro-choice arguments is based on the idea of “personhood.” Personhood is [...]

The Divine Measure: Changing the Culture of Death

By |2022-06-24T16:31:40-05:00June 24th, 2022|Categories: Abortion, Culture, Glenn Arbery, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Wyoming Catholic College|

Abortion long ago became a natural symbol for the loss of a spiritual center. Not divine law, but individual will is the measure, and rejecting the child within the body becomes its expression. Challenging Roe v. Wade is not a matter of standing in judgment against women, but of changing a culture of death. With [...]

Eight Reasons to Overturn Roe v. Wade

By |2022-06-24T14:08:38-05:00June 24th, 2022|Categories: Abortion, Constitution, Senior Contributors, Supreme Court, Thomas R. Ascik, Timeless Essays|

Not only does the Supreme Court regularly overturn prior precedents, it has established rules for doing so. Here are eight reasons to overturn Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision, The Imaginative Conservative revisits some of its best essays on the topic of human life. With the widespread [...]

The Life Issues & the Witness of Walker Percy

By |2021-11-09T10:30:51-06:00November 4th, 2021|Categories: Abortion, Literature|

Walker Percy's fiction and especially his philosophical essays serve as an antidote to the often facile, shallow, and dishonest propaganda typical of pro-abortion advocacy. They are beautifully written, insightful, entertaining, and not least life-affirming. Walker Percy In January of 1988, fifteen years after Roe v. Wade, Walker Percy, doctor, novelist, philosophical writer, Catholic [...]

Is It Morally Permissible to Receive the COVID Vaccines?

By |2021-03-24T10:26:36-05:00March 20th, 2021|Categories: Abortion, Catholicism, Christianity|

Any vaccine that has been derived or developed through or in conjunction with abortion is nothing that the Christian conscience can accept. And it would be a relief if Christians could hear a message of clarity and unwavering orthodoxy on this issue of issues from the leaders of the Church. A death-dealing industry and a [...]

Where Babies Come From

By |2021-02-27T15:17:20-06:00February 27th, 2021|Categories: Abortion, Family, Glenn Arbery, Senior Contributors, Wyoming Catholic College|

We love God, follow the reason implicit in sexual nature, and consider having children the greatest privilege bestowed on us, the greatest of gifts. Each child is a huge promise, a new world aborning, and I cannot imagine a financial anxiety so serious that it would make anyone think otherwise. In one of the customs [...]

Rush Limbaugh, Defender of Life

By |2021-04-16T12:20:41-05:00February 25th, 2021|Categories: Abortion, Conservatism, Media|

As I listened, some 16 years ago, to Rush Limbaugh defend Terry Schiavo's life and all human life, I remember thinking at the time that it was the most eloquent defense of life I had ever heard. Although it was 16 years ago, I remember it vividly. I was driving down I-270 in Maryland toward [...]

October May Bring Pro-Life Revolutions in the US and China

By |2020-10-06T22:19:40-05:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Abortion, Modernity, Politics|

October 2020 is likely to be the month when the birth restrictions in China, which should never have been implemented, are finally abolished. We look to the October Surprise with bated breath. Both DC and Beijing may yet pleasantly surprise everybody. The month of October will be an incredibly important one for the pro-life movement [...]

To Faithfully Follow ‘Roe’: How ‘Roe v. Wade’ Now Protects Human Life

By |2020-05-21T00:18:43-05:00May 20th, 2020|Categories: Abortion, American Republic, Compassion, Constitution|

As a majority of states have rejected the application of capital punishment in certain cases, United States law has moved toward mercy, away from cruelty. Consensus about human dignity and the inception of human life now calls for a similar move at the beginning of life. Just Mercy In his book Just Mercy, attorney Bryan [...]

The Dark Road From Abortion to Infanticide in American Law

By |2022-05-07T15:18:36-05:00February 3rd, 2020|Categories: Abortion, Conservatism, Donald Trump, Government, Liberalism, Politics, Senior Contributors, Thomas R. Ascik|

The contemporary frequency of parents, especially mothers, killing their children—not only newborn babies but toddlers too—is a new phenomenon. Does this have something to do with the relentless loosening of abortion laws in America since Roe v. Wade? We live in an era where we pretend that we do not know when life begins, but [...]

“A Glimpse of the Majesty of God’s Creation”: Remarks at the 2020 March For Life

By |2020-01-25T00:54:44-06:00January 24th, 2020|Categories: Abortion, Audio/Video, Donald Trump, Presidency|

President Donald J. Trump today became the first President of the United States to address in person the March for Life. Please read below the official White House transcript of the remarks, which was provided to The Imaginative Conservative. Below the transcript is also a video of the president's speech. Office of the Press Secretary [...]

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