Last Friday, There Were None, by John Madigan

By John Madigan, Crisis Magazine, July 28, 2025

Following work in the corporate finance department of a large Chicago law firm, John Madigan had a sole practice focused on general representation of business clients. …

A recent wave of Planned Parenthood clinic closures may not be from a decline in abortions, but a move to self-managed home abortions.

Most weeks, I spend an hour or so standing on a public right-of-way facing a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic. I pray the Rosary and hope that the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that I hold might touch the heart of a client or worker entering that office a few parking spots away.

It’s a small storefront. They don’t do surgical abortions there.  But they have done a brisk business selling abortion pills to young women, to middle-aged women, to black women, to white women, to Hispanic women.

Burdened mothers walk in, then they walk out an hour or so later empowered to kill the children in their wombs. Most hold a single sheet of paper.

Last Friday, for the first time, there were none. …

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