The now-ubiquitous terms “reproductive health” and “reproductive freedom” have contributed mightily to a slaughter of the innocents in these United States. The death toll from that massacre is now greater than the estimated 60 million civilian lives erased by area bombing, genocide, starvation, and disease during World War II. If the victor of D-Day, Dwight…
A terrible coarsening and society’s dwindling moral self-understanding
Boxes of mifepristone under the label Mifeprex are seen April 9, 2024, at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois. On August 30, 2026, US Chief District Judge Reed O’Connor paused a lawsuit by Texas and Florida seeking to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, likely until after November’s midterm elections. Photo: OSV News/Evelyn Hockstein, via Reuters.

George Weigel