Move Over, Kansas & New Mexico, Massachusetts Has Gone All In on Out-of-State Abortions

When I first saw Massachusetts’ abortion total for 2024, I assumed there was a mistake. Based on historical data, it simply wasn’t plausible. In 2023, a reported 20,008 abortions took place in Massachusetts. For 2024, Guttmacher put the state total at 20,990—and their estimates are almost always too high. In fact, among the 23 states where abortion remains legal and 2024 abortion totals have already been reported, the Guttmacher estimate was higher than reported 23 times. That’s 100%. Their overall abortion estimate for those 23 states was inflated by 27%. But all that changed last week with the publication of the 2024 Massachusetts Induced Termination of Pregnancy Report. Guttmacher’s estimate, it turns out, was 81% too low. The actual 2024 abortion total for Massachusetts was 49,450. That’s more than twice what it was in 2023 and three times what it was in 2020.

In 2020, there were roughly 16,000 abortions in Massachusetts against 66,000 live births. In 2023, it was 20,000 abortions versus…

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Amidst a Catastrophic Fertility Crisis, England Paid for 272,000 Abortions

I have never been to England. In fact, I have never set foot on any continent but my own. I am neither young enough nor rich enough to travel the globe, but I’ve always been rich enough for books and television—which have allowed me to vicariously cross the pond for going on half a century. I have almost religious affection for Austen and Dickens and hold C.S. Lewis in even higher regard—as does virtually every literary Christian of every liturgical stripe. Only Jesus is more popular among the brethren, by a hair’s breadth. I never turn down an invitation to 221B Baker Street (on screen or on the page), and though Agatha Christie lacks the critical acclaim of her compatriots, there’s a reason she’s outsold everyone to ever walk the planet. Then there’s J.K. Rowling, the once broke single mom who is so talented that she built a global empire with nothing but her words. And if streaming television has added anything to my life, it’s been a slew of British crime dramas that have taken me across Jolly Old England, both past and present. Like many Americans, I have a fondness—or even a reverence—for Great Britain. Which…

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The Difference Between Good Walls and Bad Walz

The Horse and His Boy is my favorite Chronicle of Narnia. That’s almost certainly a minority position, but I have a soft spot for hidden gems—which may explain why Rogue One sits atop my Star Wars pantheon. It’s so good that it doesn’t even need lightsabers, just as The Horse and His Boy is so good that it doesn’t even need children from our world to capture the imagination. The reason I bring it up is because there’s a scene about halfway through that presents a rather foreign dilemma to we Americans. The story’s intrepid young quartet must enter and pass through the Calormen city of Tashbaan without being noticed and captured. This would be a fairly simple endeavor were it not for the fact that the entire city is surrounded by a wall. There is only one way in from the south, one way out to the north, and the city gates are locked at night. Something of the same difficulty is faced by Jean Valjean when he must gain entrance to Paris without being discovered by the relentless Inspector Javert. And even the rebels in Rogue One could only gain access to Scarif by circumventing its “walls”…

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No, American Support for Abortion is Not 80%

I like listening to Batya Ungar-Sargon—who shows up with some frequency on The Megyn Kelly Show and The Free Press. She is charming and energetic and generally full of astute analysis, but her takes on abortion and gay marriage are less commendable. Batya’s argument is essentially this: The country wants gay marriage. The country wants abortion. It’s time to move on. Perhaps I should expect such thinking from a self-described "MAGA leftist,” but it’s her framing of the issues that irks me the most. By attributing to both more cultural support than either actually enjoys, she infers for herself a dubious moral loophole. It’s the Pontius Pilate approach to avoiding culpability. I do not support this miscarriage of justice, but who am I to thwart the will of the people? Batya said something to Megyn Kelly back in November that prompted me to DM her the following:

I was dismayed this week when you equated support for gay marriage with opposition to transgender ideology. “The right side of those two issues…

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Telehealth Abortion: The Streaming Porn of “Family Planning”

Earlier this month, new #WeCount abortion estimates were published for the first half of 2025. With barely contained glee, they reported that more U.S. abortions were performed in January 2025 than in any single month since their tracking began (in April 2022). That led them to publish the following neener, neener headline: “Abortions in the US have increased since Dobbs.” I can almost hear their smug self-satisfaction. Who is the “they” behind the #WeCount numbers? That would be the perversely-named Society of Family Planning. I say that because “family planning“ organizations seem to all have the same plan. Namely, the elimination of family—through birth control and abortion. God says to be fruitful and multiply. The family planning business much prefers sterility. And though that may seem a foolish longterm strategy, I’ve noticed that the devil isn’t overly concerned with…

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Male and Female He Created Them (for Marriage or Celibacy)

My 22-year-old daughter has become a fan of Dancing with the Stars, which just wrapped its 34th season. It’s only been airing for 20 years but has found a way to cram multiple seasons into a single trip around the sun. Why hasn’t the NFL thought of that?! A few episodes in, my daughter invited me to join her. Since it’s not every day that she asks me to do something, I was happy to oblige. And so Tuesday nights were set aside for our weekly father/daughter watch party. The basic premise of DWTS is the pairing of professional dancers with B- or C-list celebrities who are eliminated couple-by-couple as the show progresses. Since the judges give out perfect scores like candy, viewers are allowed to vote too—which means that sometimes the worst dancers get voted through and the best dancers get voted out. There are complicated reasons for this phenomenon which my daughter has wearied of trying to explain.

The reason I bring any of this up is because I noticed something a few episodes into Dancing with the Stars that struck me as rather revealing. In addition to their outfits, that is. As you may imagine on a show populated…

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