Katelyn Walls Shelton

Visiting Fellow @EPPCdc | 2025 Novak Award | formerly @yale, @HHSgov | ✍🏻 @FirstThingsMag, @realDailyWire, @WNGdotorg, Substack👇🏼 | Mom of 4

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

An absolute honor to launch my Novak Fellowship project last night at the @TFASorg Journalism Awards Dinner. It’s called Technically Human: The End & Future of Emerging Reproductive Biotechnologies. Excited to begin a yearlong probe into reprotech & what it means to be human.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

Honored to be receiving one of seven Robert Novak Journalism Awards at the annual @TFASorg Journalism Forum & Awards Dinner tomorrow night in New York City. 🌃

[Liz Wolfe @LizWolfeReason]

Anyway, I'd give my left arm to have a baby with Down Syndrome. And I know a little bit about what I'm talking about, about choosing life when you get a scary diagnosis in utero, about welcoming a child knowing that major limitations might be in store. I recommend it.

[Chelsea Patterson Sobolik @ChelsPat]

"Some lines from Augustine that I first read my freshman year of college have come to mind almost every time I’ve seen Sasse in the media since his diagnosis.

The lines repeatedly cross my mind throughout our conversation—when Sasse tells me his scalp “itches like hell” from his chemotherapy; when he tells me how doctors described in detail how his body will shut down before he dies; when he tells me about his love for his wife and his children.

But I can’t bring myself to say them to Sasse.

I don’t want to tempt a dying man to respond with some self-effacing, untrue rebuttal, and I don’t want to cry in front of him.

“The same fire that makes gold shine makes chaff smoke,” Augustine wrote in City of God. “

What matters is the nature of the sufferer, not the nature of the sufferings.”

This piece by @McCormackJohn is well-worth you time.

I continue to be amazed at how @BenSasse is redeeming his time -- what an example to us all.

https://t.co/ugLzWGufZT

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is okay to love America. You have permission to do that. Loving your people and your place does not negate or diminish the goodness of other peoples and other places.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

I will listen to every word @BenSasse has to say, for as long as God gives him to say them. I’m honored to get to listen to him tonight at the @trinityforum in Washington, D.C.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@JF_BelisleBock Just the absolute best!

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

My three-year-old daughter told me she wanted to be a mom when she grows up. I love her so much. It is the joy of a lifetime to be her mom.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@PlantingMay Hahaha. "Yes, baby, of course you can have all the candy you want."

[Ericka Andersen | Writer @ErickaAndersen]

When faced with the brutal realities of late-term abortion—a left foot with five tiny toes, half a cranium attached to the rosebud of an ear—arguments against a fetus’s humanity become very hard to make.

Quibbles about personhood quiet when the pieces of a child are reconstructed like a war casualty on a stainless-steel table.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@babyfeverbabe Thank you 🥹

[Matthew Loftus @matthew_loftus]

“If you’re going to use an LLM to write me an email, I’d much rather you just send me the prompt; at least then I’d have an idea of what you actually meant to say.”
https://t.co/AwQwhTbtlj

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@lazarusatgate @DissidentClint @historianseldon It’s a common misconception! MacDonald was one of Lewis’s favorites.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@DeadManOnAStick https://t.co/xnueYO4bXD

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

Okay so help me understand — we’re very concerned about the personhood status of AI, but not at all concerned about the personhood status of scientifically confirmed human life at its earliest stage of development…

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@brettrigby7 Em dashes and hyphens serve completely different grammatical purposes and aren't interchageable. I learned my lessons in my nineteen years of formal schooling, and I'll continue to use my beloved em dashes whenever I please.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@brettrigby7 Also this whole exchange reminded me that a hermeneutics of suspicion is one of the worst developments of AI. A “teacher of theology” should know what that is (and should have a more expansive vocabulary than multiple four letter words) https://t.co/namWyNCYfb

[Matthew Lee Anderson @mattleeanderson]

I've said before here that suspicion is one of the most corrosive effects of how AI has infiltrated our intellectual ecosystem.

These suspicions might be reasonable, in which case I would hope the Vatican would "heal" them by either repudiating them or revising.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@brettrigby7 iPhone apple keyboard…. I actually didn’t know that shortcut on Mac. That’ll make it easier than copying and pasting next time

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@brettrigby7 *Dash dash* on Apple keyboard auto corrects to an em dash. I have never and will never outsource my brain to a robot. Thank you.

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@brettrigby7 I have used em dashes since long before AI even existed and it can pry them from my cold dead hands

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@DissidentClint What’s crazy to me is the amount of faith it takes to believe a clump of wires is human but a human embryo is not https://t.co/xxom2rCHUn

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

Okay so help me understand — we’re very concerned about the personhood status of AI, but not at all concerned about the personhood status of scientifically confirmed human life at its earliest stage of development…

[Katelyn Walls Shelton @AnnaKateShelt]

@lazarusatgate @DissidentClint @historianseldon That’s not a Lewis quote.