“As I See It” — Op-Eds by NIFLA President Thomas Glessner

December 22, 2023

Other States Should Learn from Illinois’ Humiliating Defeat on ‘Stupid and Unconstitutional’ Law

A rippling undercurrent in our culture began when Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer.  Vicious attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers have occurred as over one hundred of them and some churches have been vandalized and/or fire-bombed, and blue state legislatures have proposed or adopted unconstitutional laws to shut down pro-life pregnancy centers.  Why?  Because these life-affirming agencies do not provide or refer for abortions. Illinois was one of these states.  Now, however, it has been humiliated […]
August 15, 2023

Stop Sabotaging Efforts To Help Women in Crisis Pregnancies

One can expect to be met with love, compassion, understanding, and critical resources for both mom and baby at pregnancy centers across the country. Yet pro-abortion federal and state lawmakers are attacking these life-affirming centers that aid pregnant mothers in need and make true choice about their pregnancy possible. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a prime opponent of these centers, promised that she, along with her extreme pro-abortion counterparts in Congress, would “crack down” on these centers, […]
August 3, 2023

Defending the Right to Choose Life

It has now been over one year since the Supreme Court of the United States tossed Roe v. Wade into the ash heaps of history where it belongs.  In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health the Court acknowledged that the so-called right to abortion of Roe was not in the Constitution and decisions on the legality of and restrictions on abortion is left up to the elected representatives of the people. Yet, what has been overlooked is that the Constitution indeed grants […]
March 7, 2023

Is the Asbury Awakening the Real Deal?

Recent reports tell of a spiritual awakening at a small Christian college, Asbury, in Wilmore, Kentucky.  An initial chapel gathering became an intense meeting of praise, prayer, and repentance lasting 12 days.  As news broke out, people from across America participated in what is hoped to be a new spiritual awakening.  There was a similar spiritual outbreak at Asbury in the early 1970s, with reports of prolonged gatherings of praise and repentance among thousands of […]
July 2, 2022

Thomas Glessner in Townhall: “Dobbs Means the End of the Beginning in the Abortion Wars”

“The Supreme Court of the United States has issued its long-awaited ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center. This decision sends Roe v. Wade to the ash heaps of history – along with other discredited SCOTUS opinions such as Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson and Korematsu v. United States. This decision does not end abortion, nor does it end the cultural war over the sanctity of life. It does, in the words of Winston Churchill, mark the ‘end of the beginning’ in this […]