Siena Hoefling column
Siena Hoefling
Siena Hoefling and her husband, Tom, are longtime activists from Iowa.


Abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright called abortion "murder" in 1860
Siena Hoefling
May 9, 2025

At the time he was fighting slavery, abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright set his moral sight on another evil: abortion. Or, as he preferred to call it, “ante . . .


'The Happiest Man on Earth,' Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku
Siena Hoefling
January 29, 2025

I recently stumbled on a book with the curious title The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor, by Eddie Jaku. A word of warning. . . .


Pray with our feet: Frederick Douglass and an immediate end to abortion
Siena Hoefling
August 25, 2023

The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass said that one of the obstacles to ending slavery was the “heresy” that “slavery will be abolished just when the . . .


Another dead end: the Republican "pro-life" amicus brief
Siena Hoefling
January 11, 2020

Hundreds of members of Congress started the new year with an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to "provide clarity" on abortion.  . . .


Justice Thomas says pro-life regulatory laws do little to help rid U.S. of Roe
Siena Hoefling
July 23, 2019

Justice Clarence Thomas recently said that all pro-life regulatory laws are useless in overturning Roe v. Wade. Not in so many words. But you may have heard . . .


The destructive fallacy of judicial supremacy
Siena Hoefling
June 14, 2019

Americans often think they can do nothing about abortion, in the belief that "Roe v. Wade is the law of the land." This presumption is based on a . . .


The Alabama pro-life fraud
Siena Hoefling
May 21, 2019

The folks celebrating the passage of Alabama's HB 314 ("The Alabama Human Life Protection Act") seem not to have read the bill. Although every news outlet . . .


Double-minded Supreme Court leaves door open to religious discrimination
Siena Hoefling
June 6, 2018

It was a decision that tossed a crumb to religious liberty with one hand, while it took the whole cake away with the other. The "cake-baker case," properly . . .


April 25, 1967: 50 years of abortion in Colorado
Siena Hoefling
April 25, 2017

Most of us assume that abortion was introduced in Roe v. Wade. But in fact, that Supreme Court opinion was part of a liberal trend to remove protection from the . . .


Protect the Children [VIDEO]
Siena Hoefling
April 24, 2017

[Updated April 24, 2017 – originally posted April 14] "That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. That was a horrible, . . .


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