She was used and abused as a child, and she continues to be used and abused by both pro-lifers and pro-choicers who want her to a weapon against the other side.
Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer, regular contributor to The Catholic Weekly and author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 children.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’: A searing but flawed film about abortion
For all its deft crafting of real-life detail, Eliza Hittman’s film never admits any reality besides abortion as saving grace.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The good and beautiful things I’ve seen amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is good to know that people are still people, still willing to visit each other, still willing to bring hope, still willing to share what they have.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
What ‘Jojo Rabbit’ could learn from Mel Brooks
“Jojo Rabbit,” which has been nominated for six Oscars, is the latest applicant to an exclusive club: Movies that laugh at Hitler.
Posted inFaith, Features
Natural Family Planning can be hard and expensive to use. Can new tech help?
Catholic groups offer high-tech, effective options for couples seeking to use fertility awareness based methods of family planning. But first they need more access to them.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My mother was a pro-life activist. She showed me if you’re wounding people, you are doing it wrong
Every single abortion represents a massive failure toward some particular woman.
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The types of women who veil at Mass
Hint: Most of them are just ‘regular Catholics wanting to deepen their devotion.’
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I tried to teach kids about Thanksgiving and the Eucharist—and got a lesson on the Holy Spirit instead
Every meal, every day can be an image of the Eucharist. Although we are required to work hard and do our best, it is not about us or our efforts.
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Extremes don’t work in diets—or your prayer life
Non-scale spiritual victories come when we see ourselves clearly and holistically, when we pray without prodding because God is real and someone to talk to.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How arguing over whether Epstein abused ‘girls’ or ‘young women’ hurts all victims of injustice
Jeffrey Epstein is accused of buying and selling young girls, writes Simcha Fisher, and games over semantics (is it “pedophilia” or “ephebophilia”?) means we are not truly fighting for justice for his victims.