The Fifth Column

I was recently asked about the role of emergency contraception in cases of rape. Can a Catholic accept such a thing? The answer is a resound...

“ It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. “If it’s a legitimate ...

Republican Todd Akins is in trouble for saying that a woman is less likely to get pregnant as a result of rape then she is at other times o...

When Christians see the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, " I Confess ", they generally have one of two reactions: either they nod in agr...

Some woman was lamenting the death of chivalry . She thought women had a right to chivalry, a right to be treated well. She lamented the f...

After John Roberts had to violate the Law of Non-Contradiction (ObamaCare is now both a tax and not a tax at the same time and in the same ...

I've written here , here and here on the connection between infant mortality, abortion and economics. Today, I'm going to take a ...

No matter what else one may argue, one thing is clear: Western culture doesn't value babies. At one time, it did. What changed? Let...

Ann Barnhardt has an excellent essa y on what the bishops need to do to fight the HHS Mandate. But I think there's a twist here that s...

The infant mortality rate is calculated by dividing the number of infants who die within one year of birth by the number of infants who are...

  With the release of the film "October Baby", many people are asking a new question: How common is abortion survival? Well, l...