The Abortion Catastrophe of 2023

Guttmacher has now released their 2023 abortion estimates, and the numbers are grim—to say the least. The last time America saw an annual abortion increase this bad was 1977. That was just four years removed from Roe v. Wade, when total abortions were still increasing by 10%-20% each year. Because legalizing abortion, it turns out, leads to dramatically more abortion. When you combine the new abortion numbers with the abortion love fest that just concluded at the Democratic National Convention, it puts me in a fairly sour mood. The right to kill unborn children, apparently, is so important to some Americans that they will vote for anything or anybody so long as they support the savaging of human embryos and fetuses. Emperor Palpatine? Sure. Sauron? Why not. Lord Voldemort? No problem. If they’ll champion abortion, stick ‘em on the ballot! 

No matter how vile the candidate or how reprehensible their other policies, there is a not insignificant number of people who…

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What’s Wrong With a Childless President?

After assuring us that he wouldn’t drop out of the presidential race unless "the Lord Almighty" told him to do so, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. He certainly didn’t want to and may even have been ignorant of the fact at the time, but he knows now. The “Lord Almighty,” apparently, is just a euphemism for his former boss—or whoever it is that tells him where to go and what to say. However we got here, President Biden’s 53-year political career is finally at its end. In the coming days, weeks, or months, it seems all but certain that Kamala Harris will become America’s first female president. And while that would be a historic event, Harris’ most significant demographic trait is not her sex or ethnicity. She shares those characteristics with Candace Owens and Sage Steele—who are her polar opposites in every way that counts. No, the most demographically-significant fact about Harris is that she has no children. I initially thought I was the only one to be concerned by this anomaly, but it turns out a handful of other…

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Insights From a Transgender Abortion

Entering this month, Abort73 had published 816 abortion stories. These unsolicited accounts have come to us from all over the world—mostly from women, but also from some grieving fathers as well. But then something unprecedented happened on America’s 248th birthday. From across the pond, Abort73 received its first ever abortion story from a transgender man. That is to say, from a woman who now calls herself a man. I realize, of course, that even that disclaimer pigeonholes me as a bigot. Transgender men are men (as the orthodoxy goes), but that’s a premise I’m unwilling to affirm. 

For virtually all of human history, it was understood that men can’t get pregnant. That, in essence, is what makes men men. “If men could get pregnant,” Gloria Steinem famously quipped in 1971, “abortion would be a sacrament.” But even then, her thinking was flawed. Because if men could get pregnant, they wouldn’t be men; they’d be women.…

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Is the Birth Control Pill Turning Women into Men (and Men into Women)?

Until recently, almost no one gave credence to the idea that men could become women or women become men. And though the powers that be are suddenly doing their damndest to hoist this pretense upon us, it’s only the fringes of society that are willing to go along. For most of us, we look at mentally-unstable men taking up residence in women’s locker rooms, serving time in women’s prisons, breaking women’s athletic records, or trying to make infants suck their nipples, and we see it not as progress but degradation. Evil would be another word. But have you ever considered the role the birth control pill might be playing in all this gender confusion? I hadn’t, at least not until Jordan Peterson sat down with evolutionary psychologist Sarah Hill to talk about the pill’s rather staggering impact on the minds and bodies of women. And men.

For many years, decades even, I thought the most problematic thing about the birth control pill was that it might cause an abortion. Though a cadre of purportedly pro-life physicians staunchly refused to concede this possibility, the birth control industry has sort of given up the charade. Making the uterus hostile to implantation…

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The Terribly Practical Benefits of IVF

The arguments for in vitro fertilization are terribly practical. That’s an expression I borrowed from C.S. Lewis. “Terribly practical,” that is. Prescient as Lewis was, I don’t think he ever delved into the ethics of IVF. Actually, I take that back. His 1945 conclusion to the Space Trilogy foresaw a time when human beings would “learn how to reproduce [themselves] without copulation”—and that is precisely what IVF offers. I do not say that in vitro fertilization is a terribly practical procedure (the old way of getting pregnant is far simpler), but the arguments supporting IVF certainly are. And therein lies the difficulty. To be terribly anything—be it clever, funny, or attractive—is to carry at least a hint of something dangerous. “Terribly” is an intensifier that toes the line between the amoral and the immoral, which is the same line toed by IVF.

Earlier this year, the Alabama Supreme Court garnered intense national criticism for ruling that human embryos—even the in-vitro variety—would be recognized as children under the law. As a result, several…

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Planned Parenthood or Planned Abortion?

Planned Parenthood is a brilliantly duplicitous name. Because what is the plan for virtually everyone who enters America’s premier abortion destination? The plan, of course, is to avoid parenthood—through birth control or abortion. Usually both. And both are inherently anti-parenthood. Planned Parenthood may bristle at being called “Big Abortion,” but guess whose website comes up when you type in BigAbortion.com? That would be the corporation that destroys parenthood under the banner of Parenthood. Planned Barren-hood would be more appropriate, though I doubt it would sell so well. For the most unscrupulous marketers, it’s never about selling reality.

Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded the organization that became Planned Parenthood, hated the name—but by the time the American Birth Control League was rebranded as such, she no longer had a controlling interest. Following Sanger’s death in 1966, Planned Parenthood—helmed at the time…

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