Another Vital Wake-Up Call: ‘A House of Dynamite’ and the Nuclear Threat
by John Whitehead The threat from nuclear weapons seems to be receiving more attention these days. Over the past few years, members of the media and entertainment industry have been raising the alarm in various ways about the ongoing danger to humanity from current stockpiles of thousands of nuclear weapons. An addition to…
A Letter to PayPal
by Fr. Jim Hewes This letter is lightly edited. PayPal is one of many companies that have the problematic employee abortion policy, so all the thoughts here would apply to the other companies as well. Dear PayPal: My perspective comes from directing Project Rachel, a post abortion healing program, for 18 years. I saw a…
Prevent a New Nuclear Arms Race: Replace the New START Treaty
by John Whitehead The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is the last significant nuclear arms control agreement that is still in effect between the United States and Russia. New START will expire in a matter of months, on February 5, 2026. Once New START is gone, the door would be open for the…
Orange California Planned Parenthood 911 Calls
by Sarah Terzo A collection of 911 calls from Planned Parenthood of Orange, California, which took place between 2013 and 2025, shows the organization’s lack of concern about its patients – even those experiencing medical emergencies. In one 911 recording on February 22, 2013, the Planned Parenthood worker told the operator: There’s a patient…
Exposing Injustice Through Graphic Images
by Jim Hewes Making the Abstract Concrete We can talk until we are blue in the face, but violence is simply an abstract concept for so many people (in the case of abortion – healthcare, reproductive rights, choice, etc.) Nicholai Berdyaev stated at the beginning of the 20th century: “The greatest sin of this age…
“Choice”: The Word’s Meanings and (Mis)uses
by Ms. Boomer-ang Society has developed the habit of calling people who support abortion “pro-choice” and people who oppose abortion “anti-choice.” But “pro-choice” is too narrow a term for abortion supporters, and “anti-choice” is too broad a term for me. ”Anti-choice” means a woman has no choice on whether to carry a pregnancy to…
Grievances against Planned Parenthood: Extensive Documentation
by Rachel MacNair Years ago, I kept tripping across documents on pro-life sites that indicated a lot of failed health inspections and malpractice suits at Planned Parenthood (PP). We collected a lot of those documents, including ones on women’s deaths, to use on a site called Problems at Planned Parenthood, sponsored by the Problems at…
How Abortion Doesn’t Address Women’s Real Problems
by Jim Hewes Many abortionists (Dr. Malcom Potts, Dr. Frasier Fellows, Dr. Willie Parker, etc.) claim that the reason for doing abortions is to help women. For example, Dr. Kathi Aultman stated: “performing an abortion, I was doing something for the wellbeing of women.” (Written Testimony of Kathi A. Aultman, M.D. FACOG, November 1, 2017…
Mourning the Dead and Protecting the Living: Remarks from the August 9th Peace Vigil
Our quarterly peace vigil against nuclear weapons fell on August 9th, the 80th anniversary of the US bombing of Nagasaki. The vigil was an occasion both to mourn all those killed by the nuclear weapons used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to call for action against the threat posed by nuclear weapons today. Below is…
Reasons to Fear, Reasons to Hope: The Nuclear Threat after 80 Years
by John Whitehead The nuclear threat is now 80 years old. Nuclear weapons became a reality with the first successful test of a nuclear weapon, the Trinity test, in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. These weapons’ ability to destroy human lives and societies was demonstrated with horrific clarity a few weeks later when two…