Andrea Mrozek

The second Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference happened in London, UK, February 17–19. It’s best known for having Jordan Peterson at the helm. This year roughly 4000 conservatives from countries across the globe gathered in the docklands of East London.

There are no ordinary people, and there are no ordinary marriages.

Volumes have been written on the consequences associated with unconstrained sexual freedom. Few would contest a breakdown of the relationship between the sexes. Apps intended to facilitate dating do anything but.

Two recent ads are receiving accolades for their pro-family messaging. The first is a near mini-movie for Volvo, promoting the car’s safety features in protecting a mother with a child in utero. The second commercial for Apple airpods flashes back in time to show us how a new baby became the teenager her father is now watching unwrap the gift of a new guitar.

Pro-life people are used to euphemisms in the abortion debate. The term “pro-life” itself is often denigrated because some believe pro-lifers are only concerned about life in the womb, and not the fullness of life afterwards. In reality, “pro-life” is about as clear as any term used to discuss abortion. It’s those on the other side who mostly prefer to speak in euphemism and/or double speak.

Infants born alive after abortion has come up recently. But why discuss this most electric of third rail issues? Babies born alive after an abortion in the second trimester is “common.”

“We know that we've stolen a year of childhood right around the Western world, the year of five, when our little ones are still supposed to be largely running around outside building sandcastles, and pretending they're unicorns or dragons.”

“I am busy with other things, mainly running the household for me and my 90-year-old sister plus a young working man who came to stay three years ago and doesn't look like leaving any time soon,” a friend wrote me recently. I had asked about her retirement and she said she wanted to find time to write. Before retirement, she had been a journalist.

How big a role do women’s fears about losing their identity play in low fertility rates?