As the first issue of National Review after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision put an end to Roe v. Wade was about to head to inboxes and mailboxes, I found myself on the New York magazine part of the Web. There were a number of columns about abortion, one against adoption, but this caught my eye big-time:
Never have I been more grateful to be at National Review and the National Review Institute. Below is just a sampling of some of our pro-life covers over the years.
As has been said before and after Roe went down, our work has only just begun. A lie has been undone in our constitutional law, but there are so many others still in our culture, as you see us fact-checking here daily.
Telling the story of the facts of the pro-life movement and holding leaders accountable to truly support women and children and families is something that is taken seriously here. And we can’t do it without your support.
Do you subscribe to the print magazine? Do you support the National Review Institute? Here we want to help women and girls to be able to choose life for their babies. Where we educate and advocate for adoption and foster-care reform. At the institute, I am able to bring people together who sometimes don’t know one another and encourage them in a culture that can be hostile and demoralizing. Just last week we were able to host Archbishop Bashar Warda from Iraq in our offices in New York — introducing him to a conference table full of new people, some eager to help their cause. He’s a courageous man who has been able to build a future for people who had to flee their homes because of the ISIS genocide. (They’ve built a university and a hospital, among other things, and hosted a papal visit in a land where they have been since the beginning of Christianity, but whose future is still not certain.)
It’s a blessing at National Review and the National Review Institute to be able to focus not just on the headlines and politics of the day, but on the enduring things, on policy and witness that can inspire and help people live lives of virtue.
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Bill Buckley in both the magazine and the institute and in so much of what he did kept his eye on civil society and the eternal — not just the politics and the news of the day. Thanks to the National Review Institute, we’re able to continue in that tradition today.
As we live in this post-Roe reality, we need to highlight and support faith-based and other civil-society solutions to helping women and children and families like never before. We need people to know what the alternatives are, and how to get creative about innovation, whether in policy or the front lines. We need to educate and fight for conscience rights in the midst of disingenuous and angry frenzies and attacks. Please support us. Support for NRI is support for so much of the work you come here for, that you have come to rely on National Review for. And so much more you don’t necessarily even see on our pages.
Thank you to all who donate and make our work possible. Thank you to all who consider supporting us today. We couldn’t do it without you. I am personally grateful — and keep you all in my prayers.