Facts, as they say, are stubborn things. In defending abortion, some pro-choice activists can only ask women to ignore what their eyes evidently see.
Charles C. Camosy
Charles C. Camosy is a professor of medical humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine and holds the Monsignor Curran Fellowship in Moral Theology at St. Joseph Seminary in New York. He is the author of eight books, including, most recently, One Church.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
There is nothing Catholic or pro-life about a small-government approach
There is every reason to hope and even expect that pro-lifers will intentionally move with confidence into a Pro-Life 3.0 future focused on radical equality for both mother and child.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This election season, don’t let politics turn your fellow Catholics into your enemies.
Let’s have the arguments. Let’s go vote. And then let’s argue some more. Many of the issues at stake are indeed very important. But let’s do this fully grounded in our Catholic family.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
In a post-Dobbs world, abortion rights activists are erasing pro-life Christians of color
A post-Dobbs narrative breezily associates all anti-abortion activism and policies with racism.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Abortion win in Kansas was a wake-up call for the pro-life movement
Abortion activists have been preparing for years for a battle like the one in Kansas. But pro-lifers may have been caught flat-footed, perhaps never really believing that Roe would fall.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This doctor just gave the pro-life movement its post-Trump playbook
It is time for pro-lifers to abandon the nose-holding, smash the MAGA idol and find a different way.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Advocate for abortion if you must. But don’t say poor people made you do it.
Economically vulnerable people of color are significantly more anti-abortion than rich white folks are.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We have more common ground on abortion than you think. Don’t let a Supreme Court leak threaten it.
With a focus on unity—even in spite of substantial differences—the issue of abortion looks quite different than the picture painted by those who want to see our polity burned to the ground.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We must not let health care become a religion-free zone
In recent years, a new kind of hostility has developed toward any hint of faith in the practice of health care. But the idea that health care must be a religion-free zone is absolutely bizarre.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Will Catholic universities survive the upheaval in higher education? The next 10 years will tell.
If Catholic higher education is to survive, administrators, faculty and students must be intentional and authentic when it comes to our mission and identity.