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Sep 18, 2024 | 
archive.is | Christina Francis
ExploreOpinion: Georgia’s abortion law left these women in shamblesPro-choice advocates are promoting the message that the abortion drugs can be consumed with little to no medical supervision. A recent study found that the share of women who use these drugs to self-manage an abortion jumped from 2.4% in 2021 to 3.4% in 2023. Undergoing induced abortions largely alone puts women at risk for the same kinds of complications that my patient and Thurman endured.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Christina Francis
Amber Nicole Thurman, a young mother from Georgia, died in 2022 from infection following a chemical abortion. As recently reported, her heartbreaking death was certainly preventable, but, contrary to what many are claiming, the state’s abortion law did not stand in the way of saving her life. The 28-year-old medical assistant had obtained abortion drugs from an abortion clinic in North Carolina, where induced abortion is legal at nine weeks’ gestation.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
dailysignal.com | Christina Francis
After seven statewide wins in the past two years and not a single loss, pro-abortion activists are advancing constitutional amendments in another 13 states this year to block elected representatives from regulating abortion in any way. The pro-abortion activists are deploying the same winning strategy as last cycle: highlighting medical professionals who cast abortion as essential health care. But for thousands of doctors like me, the facts say something different.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sean Thomas |Bridget Phetasy |Joseph Ogilvy |Christina Francis
I hate tipping, not because I am intrinsically mean but because of the anxiety it induces. You pitch up at some glam hotel, after a grueling flight, then the guy next to the concierge takes your bags to your room, and, as you go, you fumble in your pockets, searching for the mysterious notes and coins, even as you try to estimate the right amount to tip the porter.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
californiaglobe.com | Christina Francis
Pregnancy resource centers in California are under attack. From graphic messages spray painted on center walls, to rocks thrown through windows, to men threatening staff with machetes, these centers have sadly experienced it all. Yet California politicians seem more intent on harassing these centers and attempting to shut them down instead of investigating these crimes.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Ian Buruma |Ben Domenech |Christina Francis
The Democrats dare to hope that this week will be a study in contrasts. On their side stands President Joe Biden, the veteran statesman, using all his diplomatic experience to stop a third world war breaking out in the Middle East. On the other, in the dock in Manhattan, sits Donald Trump, facing thirty-four criminal counts in a case relating to porn stars, adultery and hush money.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ian Buruma |Freddy Gray |Ben Domenech |Christina Francis
A short new book on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the proudly patriotic French army officer who was falsely accused in 1894 of being a German spy, and whose court cases divided France into two warring camps, could not have been better timed. For the division sounds horribly familiar. Liberal, democratic, secular, cosmopolitan, urban France was pitted against provincial, religious, authoritarian, anti-immigrant, chauvinistic France.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Christina Francis |Jawad Iqbal |Lionel Shriver
Welcome to Thunderdome. It’s obvious that when it comes to 2024, Donald Trump doesn’t want the race to be about the culture war issues that he views as a major drag from the past few years of elections, with abortion at the top of the list. He’d rather it be a race about immigration, the economy, and oddly enough, his own persecution by the Deep State (which motivates his core supporters, but not many others).
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jawad Iqbal |Christina Francis |Lionel Shriver |Amber Athey
It is hard not to feel a teeny weeny bit sorry for Emma Raducanu, who was hailed as the next big thing in tennis after her fairytale win in the 2021 US Open. She was just eighteen when she won at Flushing Meadows, a Grand Slam triumph achieved only three months after she finished her A-levels. It prompted breathless talk of her being a once-in-a-generation tennis superstar — a British Serena Williams, no less.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Christina Francis |Jawad Iqbal |Lionel Shriver |Amber Athey
The betting market often provides different insights from traditional polling. While most polls presently have Donald Trump with a slight lead over Joe Biden, election betting tells a different story. After months floundering, Biden is now the best bet for the 2024 election, according to data from OddsChecker, a British company that compares odds in everything from esports to American politics.
