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