JD Vance defends Christians in Munich
(and other stories)
Hello all,
A few columns for you this weekend!
At The European Conservative, an interview with investigative journalist Jennifer Bilek on the billionaires fueling the transgender “movement”: “The Dark Money Behind the Trans Movement.” An excerpt:
Out Leadership is the business networking arm of the LGBTQI+, where those in the higher echelons of the LGBTQI+ political apparatus meet with others in the business communities to cross-market gender ideology. Out Leadership boasts a marketing constituency of $4.7 trillion, which they use as a cudgel to get other businesses in line with this ideology.
At First Things, I have a column on the war between Louisiana and New York. An abortionist mailed pills to Louisiana, and a teen girl was coerced into taking them. Her wanted baby died and she suffered a medical emergency. The governor of New York stated that she will never cooperate with an extradition order for an abortionist. Texas is involved now, as well: “America’s Cross-Border Abortion War.”
JD Vance gave a truly bombshell speech at the Munich Security Conference this week, in which he confronted the European elites about their attacks on freedom of speech and suppression of democracy: “JD Vance defends persecuted pro-lifers and censored Christians in Munich.”
At The Bridgehead: “One woman is on a mission to bring the world’s largest porn site to its knees.”
Very good news that directly rebuts the wave of abortion propaganda we’ve been faced with since Dobbs: “Maternal mortality fell 17% the year after Roe v. Wade was overturned.”
The so-called “slippery slope” is demonstrable reality: “UK veteran offered assisted suicide…before it is even legal.”
Finally, on the podcast I have an interview with Jonathan Darnel, one of the pro-life political prisoners pardoned by Donald Trump last month. He explains what it was like to get jailed, pardoned, and what comes next.
This week’s Bridgehead Briefing—good news out of Canada, for a change:
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Particularly curious re your interpretation of maternal mortality rates. Occam’s razor suggests something else accounting for a drop in such rates than more restrictive/ pro-life abortion laws, and a cursory tour around the numbers (adjusted for states, which the article does fairly mention is not accounted for in the CDC study cited) shows that, in fact, up to a 65% *higher maternal mortality rate can obtain in these areas.
Genuine question: With the understanding that numbers can always be gerrymandered or cherry-picked, what might be the mechanism by which lower mortality rates are achieved by banning abortion?
For instance, I understand that here in the US we have typically higher maternal mortality rates than Europe, w generally far more restrictive abortion, but also where robust socialized healthcare systems exist- I’d presume the mechanism for lessened mortality to be the latter rather than the former. I tend towards an interpretation of correlation rather than causation on this one.
Canadian apologist Wes Huff was recently on Allie Beth Stuckey’s podcast. They discussed a lot of things, but I was most interested to hear his perspective on the spiritual state of Canada. He seemed fairly optimistic that things are changing for the better. What are your thoughts on the current climate, especially with the leadership changes at the highest levels? I’d love to hear you discuss this with Huff as well.