Thomas Glessner, Author at NIFLA.org

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 6, 2017

Thomas Glessner and Charles “Chuck” A. Donovan in Fox News: All Americans Should Care About this First Amendment Case

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/06/all-americans-should-care-about-this-first-amendment-case.html

First Amendment cases are very much on the national mind these days, and the news from the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is very encouraging for those who believe in strong protections for constitutional freedoms. The court delivered a First Amendment victory last week in a case involving religious free exercise, and kept alive hope for victories in two other cases where the hot button issues of same-sex marriage and abortion are involved.

February 11, 2017

[The Stream] Trump’s SCOTUS Pick: A Perfect Choice to Help Women and Children

https://stream.org/trumps-scotus-pick-perfect-choice-help-women-children/

President Donald Trump has upheld his campaign promise to put a pro-life justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by nominating Tenth Circuit Court judge Neil Gorsuch.

January 26, 2017

[News Busters] March for Life Will Be Bigger, More Women-Focused than Women’s March — Will Media Notice?

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/thomas-glessner/2017/01/26/march-life-will-be-bigger-more-women-focused-womens-march-%E2%80%94-will?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpCaE5ERTFPR1ZsWkRsaCIsInQiOiI3cFc3WmFIYzFIeDdHTWxlcHpra1dRNEJBZHJDdDJiaFh3bUx5RDFrdTBLYkNTQVIyQUw3RHFJTk9HVjlVVWpmTHRmSzRPR3VZRklSMWE1U2xIYlZmTmc2V3MzYkxtTUJcL3U5ek13RG8reEU9In0%3D

When it comes to protests, the national mainstream media plays a deceptive numbers game. For instance, the press gave huge coverage to last weekend’s March for Women, which drew a reported 200,000 people protesting the Trump Administration and allegedly proclaimed solidarity with women.

January 25, 2017

Thomas Glessner and Diane Black in The Washington Times: Empowering a woman’s right to choose life

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/25/empowering-a-womans-right-to-choose-life/

Three-thousand pregnancy resource centers and medical centers exist in America. They empower a woman’s right to choose life by providing material provisions, housing and adoption information, education on abortion alternatives, ongoing counseling, and medical services such as ultrasounds, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatments, and more.

December 8, 2016

Thomas Glessner in The Hill: Women and Children Need Congress to Protect Them in 2017

http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/309536-women-and-children-need-congress-to-protect-them-in-2017

Last week, the House of Representatives’ Select Panel on Infant Lives recommended prosecution of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast for illegally selling organs and body parts of aborted babies to the University of Texas. This panel has been critical in helping America come to terms with the chilling reality of abortion.

November 9, 2016

Thomas Glessner in the Washington Examiner: The Supreme Court Was the Issue that Carried Election Day

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-supreme-court-was-the-issue-that-carried-election-day/article/2606945

Election Day has come and gone, its results sending shockwaves across the nation. Most political pundits totally misread the level of discontent felt by Americans towards their government — discontent that launched President-elect Donald Trump into the presidency in perhaps the biggest upset in American history.

October 14, 2016

[IJR] Mike Pence Showed That He Will Stand Up For The ‘Little Guys’ – The Unborn

http://ijr.com/opinion/2016/10/260658-mike-pence-showed-will-stand-little-guys-unborn

I was raised in a partisan Democratic family. My father, an evangelical minister, believed that his Christian faith required him to be very politically oriented. I was raised on the values that Christians must defend the voiceless, the homeless, the widow, and the orphan. Thus, we considered ourselves Democrats – the party of the little guy…