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Oct 3, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Carmel Richardson
Daily Scripture Reading and Meditations: The Kingdom of God Has Come near to You By Carmel Richardson, First Things, Oct. 3, 2024Carmel Richardson is a contributing editor at The American Conservative. A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to assuage American doubts about reelecting Donald Trump.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Carmel Richardson
A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to assuage American doubts about reelecting Donald Trump. Balancing his own more pro-life position with a determination to present Trump’s abortion rhetoric as both moderate and pro-family, Vance may have successfully threaded a needle that Republican politicians, including his running mate, had previously failed to do.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Amber Nicole Thurman died of septic shock with “retained products of conception” in late summer 2022. Just a few weeks before, the overturn of Roe v. Wade triggered Georgia’s state law banning abortions from the sixth week of pregnancy.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
What Are Children For? by Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg, St. Martin’s Press, 336 pages, June 2024Rachel Wiseman’s mother always knew she wanted to have children. Wiseman, meanwhile, only arrived at the same conclusion after a winding personal odyssey, one that involved soul-searching “Motherhood: Is It For Me?” classes, reading a lot of “motherhood ambivalence” autofiction and feminist literature, and finally, watching her friend, Anastasia Berg, go through it.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Religion
GOP Can Learn Abortion Lesson from Methodist Infighting
Republicans must remain the pro-life party.
Before my United Methodist Church began its final descent into theological madness, disparate elements were trying to drag it left or right on various issues through the denomination’s messy democratic process. Nowhere was this more apparent than on abortion. The church was an early adopter of the “prayerfully pro-choice” position before Roe v.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
compactmag.com | Carmel Richardson
Last month, the conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck posted a video on X, formerly known as Twitter, denouncing Tractor Supply Co. The Tennessee-based firm, which markets its farm supplies with rugged Americana iconography, requires its employees to undergo mandatory “LGBTQIA+ training,” while sponsoring sex-reassignment surgery and hormone-replacement therapy through its health plan.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Abortion
Why the Abortion Pill Ruling Is About the Administrative State
The Supreme Court delivers a blow to pro-lifers– as well as to opponents of the administrative state.
The U.S. Supreme Court surprised no one Thursday morning when it ruled unanimously that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al. did not have legal standing to challenge the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the abortion pill.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis |Carmel Richardson
Religion
Jesuit Plots
The Society of Jesus has been responsible for many revolutions both political and spiritual.
The Jesuits: A History, by Markus Friedrich, translated by John Noël Dillon, Princeton University Press, 872 pagesIn Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, a Canadian bounder named Rex Mottram converts to Catholicism in order to marry the novel’s leading lady, Julia Flyte.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Two young women are driving towards the Alabama state line. The driver is seeking an abortion, which is illegal in the state of Alabama. In the passenger seat, her friend encourages her that she will not get caught, since the two are almost out of the state. Less than a mile from the border, however, blue lights flash them over, and a law enforcement officer walks up to the car with a pregnancy test.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Carmel Richardson
Three weeks ago, Michigan became one of the most friendly places in the country for commercial baby-making. It is no surprise, under its current Democratic leadership in the legislature and executive, that Michigan chose to defend the surrogacy industry and LGBT special interest groups over women and children. It is, however, a monumental change for the state, the true ramifications of which may only be visible in years to come.
