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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Remembering Sara Henley

Thanks to America This Week, I’ve been on a top-ten kick of late. Novels, movies, songs, TV shows… There’s something satisfying and exceedingly challenging in trying to narrow such broad fields down to your ten favorites. Not the ten best, mind you—that’s a thoroughly impossible task—but favorites is at least manageable. I’ve tried to rope in friends and family, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea (which reminds me, I need to rank drinks next). My ten favorite novels are fairly conventional. Lots of classics. They are, in no particular order: The Three Musketeers, Tom Sawyer, Les Miserables, That Hideous Strength, The Count of Monte Cristo, David Copperfield, Pride & Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, and East of Eden. There’s a good chance we share some in common, which is more than can be said of my songs list.

Coming up with my ten favorite songs, it turns out, was a far more difficult task. I’ve read hundreds of novels in my 50 years, but I’ve heard…

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Voddie Baucham’s Eleventh Commandment

Eric Metaxas sent out a video last week from 2021 titled “Biblical Justice vs. Social Justice.” It was from a panel discussion he’d participated in for Salem Media Group. The other two panelists were Charlie Kirk and Voddie Baucham. Charlie Kirk, as the whole world knows, was assassinated on September 10. Voddie Baucham died two weeks later of an unspecified medical emergency. Charlie was 31; Voddie was 56. So seeing the two of them sitting next to each other on stage was another pause-to-consider moment in a month full of pause-to-consider moments.

I got to see Voddie Baucham in person at the 2006 Desiring God National Conference. It was the same conference that introduced me to Tim Killer and Mark Driscoll. All three were standouts, but Voddie was the only one to talk about abortion—so I knew from the outset that he was made of sterner stuff. He pointed out…

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Remembering Charlie

An entirely unknown Charlie Kirk was just five years old when I started working for the Center for Bio-ethical Reform. This was in January of 1999. I’m struck by this fact for two reasons. The first being that Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week amidst a large crowd of students on the campus of an American university, and my pro-life career began amidst a large crowd of students on the campus of an American university. For me, it was the University of Florida. I was there with the newly-minted Genocide Awareness Project, which displays giant pictures of abortion victims alongside images of traditionally-recognized victims of genocide. And when students or professors came up to say—as they did early and often, “How dare you compare abortion to slavery or the Holocaust?!” we were there to give a defense. But no one did it better than our director, Gregg Cunningham. He would hold court in front of these signs as the crowds grew and intensified, deftly deflecting their rage while relieving them of their abortion ignorance. But not everyone took it well, which is why we had crowd-control barricades and a constant police presence.

Towards the…

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The Blurry Line Between Democracies and Death Cults

Douglas Murray makes a poignant observation towards the end of his latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults—which examines Israel’s response to the brutal terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023. He notes that while Israel is engaged in a life-and-death struggle for its very survival, America is “obsessing about the exact date at which you should be able to abort a child,” and Britain is arguing about “when you might kill an old person.” Is this really “the highest [expression] of human achievement and peace?” Murray asks. Though I don’t know his position on abortion, I appreciate the implication. As Israel fights to protect the lives of its people, many in America and Britain fight to push the oldest and youngest of its people beyond the bounds of moral obligation. It’s a stark dichotomy, except for the fact that Israel is every bit as committed to abortion as America—at least in theory. 

As I pointed out in December 2023, Israel kills more of its own children on any given day than Hamas did on October 7, and…

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