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The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the American mother charged with the first-degree murders of her three children in January 2023, began last month. One would hope that the wretched story of a woman allegedly triggered by postpartum psychosis to strangle a five-year-old, a three-year-old and an 8-month infant would simply be too horrific to be [...] The post Lindsay Clancy, TikTok, and mental meltdowns…
Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen was once again blocked from entering the United Kingdom due to her “hate speech” conviction for defending Scripture, according to Alliance Defending Freedom CEO Kristen Waggoner. Räsänen is a member of Finnish Parliament’s “Friends of the United Kingdom” group. “My friend Päivi Räsänen – a doctor, grandmother, member of Finnish parliament, [...] The post…
I have been asked many times over the past few years why I have focused so often on the rise of antisemitism in my commentary, especially since this has increasingly become an unpopular topic on the Right. There are several answers to this question–a full answer would fill a medium-sized book–but one is a matter [...] The post Why I Stand With the Jewish People first appeared on The Bridgehead .
Monica Miller is one of the handful of people in the world who have encountered thousands of abortion victims face to face. This year marks the half-century anniversary of Monica Miller’s pro-life activism. During the past half-century, she has sidewalk counseled outside abortion clinics, prayed outside of political conventions, retrieved babies from dumpsters and pathology [...] The post The…
There are scenes that sum up the sickness of an era, and we saw one of them unfold in the office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey on Monday. She was at her desk, surrounded by beaming women. There was flashing and the sound of camera shutters; the governor bent over and signed a document. She [...] The post The joy of killing babies first appeared on The Bridgehead .
On July 6, 1887, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass sat down to write a letter to one of the most famous men in Great Britain. “Dear Mr. Spurgeon,” he wrote. While crossing the Atlantic, last September, and looking out upon its proud dashing billows and their varied forms, and thinking of the diversity in the [...] The post The Lion of Anacostia and the Prince of Preachers first appeared on…
Three years after illegally cancelling a Christian group’s event for its pro-life views, Quebec’s former tourism minister Caroline Proulx has been ordered to personally pay Harvest Ministries International $30,000 by a Quebec judge for violating their right to freedom of speech. As LSN reported at the time, Harvest Ministries International had a contract to host [...] The post Canadian politician…
After a decade of Liberal government, the slow erosion of freedom of speech has escalated. The latest example of this comes from the Edmonton Police. An X post last week included a link urging people to “report online hate” with the message: “You typed it. Someone lived it. Online hate isn’t ‘just a comment.’ It [...] The post ‘Hate speech’ law already having a chilling effect in Canada first…
Abortion activists are spearheading another attempt to legalize abortion in Liechtenstein, the tiny German-speaking country landlocked between Switzerland and Austria. It is both the world’s sixth smallest country and one of the wealthiest; a constitutional monarchy with one of the highest standards of living in Europe. It also boasts one of Europe’s strongest pro-life regimes. [...] The post…
Vice President JD Vance has been the Trump administration’s primary spokesman to the pro-life movement, tasked with easing the tensions that have arisen as the president pivots away from the movement and seeks to transition the GOP into a pro-choice party. Vance addressed some of those concerns directly at the March for Life in January, where he attempted [...] The post JD Vance’s defence of the…
