{"id":35208,"date":"2025-10-29T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=35208"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:36:01","slug":"our-increasingly-dangerous-abortion-pill-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/our-increasingly-dangerous-abortion-pill-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Increasingly Dangerous Abortion-Pill Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>By:  Kathryn Jean Lopez, originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-lifeline\/our-increasingly-dangerous-abortion-pill-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 17, 2025, The National Review<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong><em>\u201cWe have reason for hope. Look at you. Look at you. There is our hope. Look at the wonder of you.\u201d \u2014<\/em>\u00a0the late New York Cardinal John O\u2019Connor, founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sistersoflife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sisters of Life<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I plugged that quote into Google, and AI told me it was from Elvis Presley. I suppose I can roll with the disinformation. The more it is attributed to Elvis, perhaps the more likely people will be to consider its truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of the things we talked about at the Leading with Love Conference at the Catholic University of America last week was the reality that if you do not know that your life is worth living \u2014 and celebrating \u2014 it\u2019s going to be next to impossible to welcome new life into the world with enthusiasm and the kind of radical hospitality and self-sacrifice it requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Celebrate birthdays. Let yours be celebrated, too. These are important. You are important. That\u2019s how we love, by being loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The \u2018Vital Interest\u2019 of the World Is \u2018the Life of the Child\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You may remember the famous&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2019\/12\/09\/william-f-buckley-jr-vs-james-baldwin-debating-race-in-america\/\">debate<\/a>&nbsp;between William F. Buckley Jr. and James Baldwin. Do you recall, though, James Baldwin on abortion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There\u2019s a new biography out on Baldwin, and at&nbsp;<em>Angelus<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, columnist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/angelusnews.com\/author\/father-richard-antall\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monsignor Richard Antall<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/angelusnews.com\/voices\/baldwin-abortion\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve on the contrary, to multiply: life is their only weapon against life, life is all they have,\u201d Baldwin writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">[Baldwin] continues: \u201cThis is why the dispossessed and starving will never be convinced (though some may be coerced) by the population-control programs of the civilized. I have watched the dispossessed and starving laboring in the fields which others own, with their transistor radios at their ear, all day long: so they learn, for example, along with equally weighty matters, that the Pope, one of the heads of the civilized world, forbids to the civilized that abortion which is being, literally, forced on them, the wretched.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Speaking of the \u201ccivilized\u201d promoters of the destruction of life in the womb \u2014 before governments like our own began pushing an abortion agenda on the developing world \u2014 Baldwin says, \u201cthese people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the \u2018sanctity\u2019 of human life. . . . There is a \u2018sanctity\u2019 involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cDreadful indeed it is to see a starving child, but the answer to that is not to prevent the child\u2019s arrival but to restructure the world so that the child can live in it: so that the \u2018vital interest\u2019 of the world becomes nothing less than the life of the child.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Privatizing Abortion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Do we actually care about chemical abortions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In October 2025, this is a question we all need to ask ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Because we are simply privatizing abortion in America. We\u2019re relegating it to something that happens in the bathroom. Something that is none of anyone\u2019s business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Is that what we want to be doing? Is that what we ought to be doing? I know the answer to the second question is no. I fear that the answer to the first may be a resigned yes for many more than might care to admit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As the Queen Debbie Downer who brings up abortion all too often, I know too well how much people don\u2019t want to think about abortion. I get it. I don\u2019t actually want to. But now is the time when we are living. And abortion is easy to access \u2014 and increasingly so. The pressure is high, and so are the expectations that abortion be considered just another health care choice. And how many of us are suffering in some way from the repercussions of abortion? In our families? In our own bodies? More than a half century of abortion in America has left walking wounded \u2014 real human lives ended, others forever changed. And with the added culture that insists you pretend that your root canal was more dramatic than your abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PyC1_msah9U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this\u00a0brief video<\/a>, a young woman talks about her coerced abortion. Hers is a live Alliance Defending Freedom case against the FDA. Rosalie\u2019s boyfriend got the abortion pills in Louisiana from California. \u201cIf mail-order abortion wasn\u2019t a thing,\u201d she says \u201cI\u2019m 100 percent sure I would have my child.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The FDA should have never approved the abortion-pill cocktail in the first place. It should not have allowed the Biden administration to remove the in-person mandate for prescribing the pills. And now, the FDA should not have approved a generic version of mifepristone, the key component in chemical abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There were a few pieces this week on chemical abortion, some occasioned by the recent generic approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstthings.com\/expanded-abortion-pill-access-puts-death-in-womens-hands\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carmel Richardson writes at&nbsp;<em>First Things<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As the abortion pill becomes more common, it will more commonly be the source of lawsuits and horror stories, as that 11 percent of women who experience deadly side effects represents a more sizable number of victims. All of modern medicine has side effects, and medical malpractice insurance exists for a reason. Yet unlike the woman whose baby is aborted in a clinic, the woman who takes mifepristone at home has no doctor, no nurse, and no technician to blame if something goes wrong, much less if everything goes horribly right. Mifepristone lays the burden of responsibility squarely on her shoulders, as the sole agent of her child\u2019s death. Maybe something went wrong, maybe she was mistaken about the nature of the drug, maybe she regrets her decision, it matters not: By putting more killing in the hands of mothers with practically no oversight, the FDA is giving women the unfettered freedom of choice abortion advocates have been begging for for generations. It is a responsibility they almost certainly are not prepared to meet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2025\/10\/14\/fda-abortion-pill-mifepristone-generic-drug\/86565930007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marjorie Dannenfelser in&nbsp;<em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Evita Solutions, which describes its mission as being to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evitasolutionsllc.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cdestigmatize abortion\u201d and make abortions accessible \u201cfor all,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;submitted its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/drugsatfda_docs\/appletter\/2025\/216616s000ltr.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">application to produce generic mifepristone<\/a>&nbsp;in October 2021 \u2014 mere months after then-President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/joe-biden\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s FDA used COVID-19 as an excuse to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/abortion-pill-restrictions-lifted-pandemic-fda\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ditch the safeguard of in-person doctor visits to obtain abortion drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">No doubt a profitable opportunity was in sight. Today, there are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/abortions-rose-in-2024-due-to-pills-available-through-telehealth-report-finds\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least 1.1 million abortions a year in America<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/2024\/03\/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 60% are carried out using drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Taking doctors out of the equation, the abortion industry will happily sell dangerous drugs to anyone over the internet, completely free of face-to-face interaction with a clinician. Lack of access is clearly not a problem. . . . The stakes and urgency are greater than ever now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">John Gerardi on NRO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2025\/10\/fdas-approval-of-mifepristone-generic-raises-troubling-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FDA\u2019s Approval of Mifepristone Generic Raises Troubling Questions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virginia Is for . . . Killers?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I hate to be harsh, but Virginia is out of control. As I write, that Jay Jones character is still running for attorney general there, despite his horrendous text-message outbursts and other conversations wishing violence against Republicans and, in one case, the children of a politician. Meanwhile, as you may have seen, Abigail Spanberger, the party\u2019s gubernatorial candidate, won\u2019t take back her endorsement of him and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1978265721277739446?s=43&amp;t=nrM59viknLG6pg1xykSVjQ\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has also made clear<\/a>&nbsp;that not only does she support&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1978265721277739446?s=43&amp;t=nrM59viknLG6pg1xykSVjQ\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legal assisted suicide<\/a>&nbsp;in the state, she also is opposed to anyone opting out (doctors, Catholic hospitals) for conscience reasons (read: basic religious freedom). So no life. No (religious) liberty. Want to throw in no pursuit of happiness, too? Of course, if you don\u2019t have life or liberty, I suppose we\u2019ve covered that too now, haven\u2019t we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So much for love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Godfather<\/em>&nbsp;Knew Evil<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Diane Keaton has died \u2014 God rest her soul \u2014 and, of course, one of her classic roles was in&nbsp;<em>The Godfather<\/em>. It was in the sequel where (spoiler alert) she told Michael Corleone&nbsp;that it wasn\u2019t a miscarriage that ended her pregnancy, but an abortion. It was a boy. She wanted to end the evil of the Mafia family lineage. She did something \u201cevil,\u201d \u201cunholy.\u201d She \u201ckilled.\u201d Would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gxEvQwUJElc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">such words<\/a>&nbsp;make it to the final cut of a major motion picture today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rachel Weeps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It\u2019s not a major-motion picture, but maybe the 2025 equivalent compared with&nbsp;<em>Godfather<\/em>&nbsp;days \u2014 there\u2019s a new season of the Apple TV series&nbsp;<em>The Morning Show<\/em>. It\u2019s been an ode to abortion in the past, especially around the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;decision. But this isn\u2019t a comment on any of the (crazy\/amoral) plotlines. While doing publicity for the new season, former&nbsp;<em>Friends<\/em>&nbsp;star Jennifer Aniston was asked why she has never adopted children. The tabloid press has long made her relationships and fertility struggles everyone\u2019s business. She said that she tried many things \u2014 including IVF \u2014 but was \u201cselfish\u201d in never opting for adoption. She wanted the biological connection to her child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">First, I know she is a celebrity and that such interviews go with the territory, but she\u2019s also a woman and this is among the most intimate questions you can demand and answer to. Also: Adoption should not be second-best. It should not be a fallback plan. It\u2019s not mandatory if you are having fertility obstacles. Adoption is a calling. It\u2019s a calling that more need to consider \u2014 especially for as long as there are children in foster care in the United States. But it should never be that thing you are stuck doing because your body isn\u2019t cooperating with the creation of new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And About Donald Trump and IVF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Infertility is an agony. IVF is not the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The White House announcement Thursday could have been worse. It could have had mandates. It could have had subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Still, in vitro fertilization creates life and destroys it, too. Also suspends it on ice. The full implications of all of this \u2014 moral, medical, financial \u2014 aren\u2019t necessarily explained to a couple desperate for a child to love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gratitude should be whispered to God for those who worked behind the scenes to make this less problematic than it could have been. But the president made clear he doesn\u2019t understand pro-life objections. Or scientific ones, for that matter. This was an unnecessary move that makes more of a moral mess of life and in a vast majority of cases overhypes the hope that IVF represents to those struggling with infertility. (Just ask Jennifer Aniston, who has a few dollars to spare for some decent health and fertility care.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some further insta-thoughts and links\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/author\/kathryn-jean-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elsewhere on NRO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Things<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You, like me, might remember the opening of the Houston Planned Parenthood mega-center almost 20 years ago. Shawn Carney from 40 Days for Life posted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/carneyshawn\/status\/1978440906563879252?s=43&amp;t=nrM59viknLG6pg1xykSVjQ\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new photo of the building<\/a>, now closed, with the Planned Parenthood sign officially removed. I\u2019ve said before and I will say millions of times again, I suspect, that the end of so many Planned Parenthood clinics is a sign of the times \u2013 the clinics aren\u2019t as needed as they once were. Your local pharmacy is an abortion clinic now.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/carneyshawn\/status\/1978440906563879252?s=43&amp;t=nrM59viknLG6pg1xykSVjQ\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Still, it\u2019s remarkable to see<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A headline from Michigan: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myupnow.com\/news\/health\/after-planned-parenthood-closure-doctors-pioneer-new-abortion-access-model-in-upper-peninsula\/article_05d48b98-dfce-4d5b-92d3-335d544c9bea.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After Planned Parenthood closure, doctors pioneer new abortion access model in Upper Peninsula<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What\u2019s the new model? Pills at urgent care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Feels like the same as it ever was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In Victoria, Australia,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pillarcatholic.com\/p\/bishops-urge-catholics-to-oppose\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic bishops are warning<\/a>&nbsp;against the further liberalization of assisted suicide, including the erosion of the conscience protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In Minnesota, children in foster care have the right to see their siblings.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/imprintnews.org\/top-stories\/minnesota-ombuds-for-foster-youth-reports-siblings-are-not-being-notified-of-their-rights\/267918\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">But they don\u2019t know that<\/a>. Keeping siblings together is just about the best thing, in addition to permanency, this needs to be known and accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">HerPlan has some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/herplan.org\/help-them-both-challenge\/october-2025-shutdown\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">practical ways<\/a>&nbsp;to \u201cHelp&nbsp;Moms&nbsp;and&nbsp;Babies\u201d during the &nbsp;government shutdown \u2014 and they actually could and should become things we simply do: like helping struggling families by making donations to pregnancy centers and food pantries that are resources for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From the National Council on Adoption: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/adoptioncouncil.org\/publications\/beyond-the-immediate-family-engaging-family-and-friends-in-the-adoption-journey\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond the Immediate Family: Engaging Family and Friends in the Adoption Journey<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Are you a birth mom? Brave Love would like to celebrate you on November 13. Check out if they will be in your city&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravelove.org\/birth-mom-dinners\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Applications are open for the GIVEN Catholic Young Women\u2019s Leadership Program this June. I just spoke at one of their gatherings and have been an encourager of the initiative \u2014 involved as a speaker, mentor, spiritual director, and maybe other things over the years. If you are or know a young Catholic woman 21 to 35,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/giveninstitute.com\/leadership-program\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">send her the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I\u2019ll be in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geraldrfordfoundation.org\/events\/william-f-buckley-100\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Rapids<\/a>, New York City, D.C.,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nrinstitute.org\/events-1\/wfb-jr-prize\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Palm Beach<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicprofessional.com\/announcing-2025-st-juan-diego-leadership-for-the-world-awardees\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico City<\/a>, Dallas,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/buckleyinstitute.com\/events\/fifteenth-annual-conference\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Haven<\/a>, Steubenville, and wherever I am forgetting in the coming weeks. Some talking about WFB at 100, others talking about<a href=\"https:\/\/philosproject.org\/catholic\/nostraaetate60\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;antisemitism and&nbsp;<em>Nostra Aetae<\/em><\/a>, the pope\u2019s Augustinian motto, gratitude as a civic virtue. If your school or group wants in on the K-Lo calendar \u2014 especially on the future of the pro-life movement, the civil rights issue of our time \u2014 email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:klopez@nationalreview.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">klopez@nationalreview.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And can I ask for prayers for Jennifer and Joe Fulwiler? First of all, we\u2019ve been a part of one another\u2019s lives for years, thanks to the house that WFB built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You may know Jen\u2019s name because she\u2019s an author, she has been a radio-show host, and she\u2019s a stand-up comedian. She got into the comedy thing seriously after Kate Spade died of suicide. She wears a Kate Spade bracelet and wanted to find a way to reach women like Spade, who are secular and as in need of hope as anyone \u2014 people she didn\u2019t think she was reaching necessarily on her Catholic Channel show on Sirius (though anything is possible, I say, as one who has a weekday feature there and pray that God works with everything). Jen and Joe are loving parents whose world has been rocked by the diagnosis of their daughter, Lane, with a cancerous brain tumor. Please pray for Lane, her five siblings, and Jen and Joe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Send messages of encouragement to Lane and the family at <a href=\"mailto:katlyn@thejfshow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">katlyn@thejfshow.com<\/a>. And a friend set up a GoFundMe for donations for the Fulwilers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/8k2zge-supporting-lane-through-brain-surgery-and-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More next week. See you in New York or Grand Rapids, or somewhere, before then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Kathryn Jean Lopez\u00a0is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and an editor-at-large of\u00a0National Review.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Kathryn Jean Lopez, originally published October 17, 2025, The National Review \u201cWe have reason for hope. Look at you. Look at you. There is our hope. Look at the wonder of you.\u201d \u2014\u00a0the late New York Cardinal John O\u2019Connor, founder of the\u00a0Sisters of Life. 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