Physician-Only Abortions

Penna Dexter New York recently passed legislation that makes it easier for women to get third trimester abortions. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the new law and celebrated by ordering that the 408-foot spire on the One World Trade Center building, two bridges, and the Alfred E. Smith Building in Albany be lit up in pink. New York’s abortion laws were…

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Shout About Abortion

Penna Dexter Planned Parenthood’s former president Cecile Richards downplayed abortion as her organization’s core activity. She famously maintained that abortion only makes up 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services and that the organization is focused primarily on women’s health. We expected Planned Parenthood’s new president Leana Wen, a medical doctor, to continue in this mode. But she recently blasted media…

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Some Mothers’ Dilemma

Penna Dexter A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed asks a difficult question. Writer Abigail Shrier addresses mothers of teen girls, asking them: what will you do “When Your Daughter Defies Biology.” She relates the experience of a woman, a prominent attorney, who has a college age daughter, whom the mom describes as a “girly girl”. The young woman was sometimes…

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Transgender Policy Affirmed

Penna Dexter Commensurate with a president’s primary responsibility, to protect America, President Trump has set about rebuilding and strengthening our military. Unfortunately, he’s had to fight some court battles to get this done. Early on, President Trump announced he was rolling back the Obama transgender troop policy that mandated facilities and training to smooth the way for transgender Americans to…

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Fairness for All

Penna Dexter A question to ask ourselves as we begin a new year is: “What does the Church do when more and more of it becomes apostate?” WORLD magazine reported on an example of this as the boards of two evangelical Christian organizations, the Council for Christian Colleges and the National Association of Evangelicals, quietly passed resolutions supporting an idea called…

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Obergefell is Policy

Penna Dexter Over three years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples. The ruling has resulted in all states being required to perform and recognize same-sex marriages. This was a 5-4 decision, along liberal/conservative ideological lines. The swing vote was now-retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. He wrote the opinion for the…

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Saint Nicholas

Penna Dexter In his book, THE TRUE SAINT NICHOLAS, Bill Bennett tells the story of the precursor of Santa Claus. Bill Bennett spent years as a popular radio host. He’s also a former US Secretary of Education. He seeks, in this wonderful book, to teach us about Saint Nicholas and that he “matters to Christmas.” Nicholas was likely born in…

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Feminism Begat Transgenderism

Penna Dexter A feminist writer and podcaster named Meghan Murphy recently had her Twitter account suspended due, she thinks, to her observation that “men aren’t women.” The notice from Twitter said this was “hate speech.” This reveals the conflict between two ideologies of the left: feminism and transgenderism. Ms. Murphy maintains that the transgender ideology undermines feminism because feminism depends…

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A President’s Faith

Penna Dexter As America honors President George H.W. Bush, elected a mere thirty years ago, there’s a sense that we are much further removed than that from his time in office. He famously dashed off thousands of thoughtful communications to world leaders and ordinary citizens, not electronically, but via the handwritten note. It was a different century — really a…

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School Choice Moms

Penna Dexter The midterms brought an interesting lesson in racial politics. Columnist and black conservative activist Star Parker says voting data reveals what she describes as “a fateful anomaly in racial voting in the governor’s race between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis, now Florida’s governor-elect.” Mr. Gillum is the former mayor of Tallahassee and was running to become the first…

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Lawnmower Parents

Penna Dexter You’ve heard of helicopter parents. You know — the kind that hover over their children with too much fussing regarding the details of kids’ lives. They’re inclined to smother, to swoop in to rescue their kids often irritating coaches and teachers. A new trend in parenting has been identified — the rise of lawnmower parents. One college professor…

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