The Selling of Kate Cox: How the Media Failed to Report the Full Story

Kate Cox should be cradling a little boy right now—a three-month-old at this writing and very much a wanted child. In late 2023, the Dallas-area mother of three (living) children became the focal point of one of the savviest PR efforts in America’s 52-year-old debate over...
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Playing Politics with the Abortion Pill: A Quarter Century of Abuse of Power at the FDA

  Introduction Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal, Satire VI, lines 347–348). For some 2,000 years, the problem of “who guards the guardians” has challenged good governance. The fundamental rights of every person, including the right to life, depend on a government...
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An Interview with John Hinshaw

[John Hinshaw, who served 17 months in jail after being convicted for peaceful protest at a Washington DC abortion clinic, is one of 23 prolifers pardoned by President Donald Trump on January 22, the day before the 2025 March for Life. Bernadette Patel recently interviewed Mr....
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Rescuers Will Rescue

After a stint in federal prison—where, in addition to separation from loved ones, some experienced violent surroundings, poor food and medical care, and limited access to religious services—twenty-three pardoned pro-life activists are not retreating from their mission. If...
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The Time of Trump

The up-and-down-around-and-around-here-today-who-knows-where-tomorrow presidency of Donald J. Trump leaves a writer—not to mention the majority of us—in guessing mode, hands over eyes. Gee, if we say something searching, something discerning about our president’s second White...
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Netflix Show ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Depicts Abortion As Just Another Choice

  Viewers of Ginny & Georgia, Netflix’s soapy TV show about a young mom and her teenage daughter, likely aren’t watching the show for anything profound. But it’s too bad that despite its subtle pro-life premise — after a teenage pregnancy, Georgia begins the show as a...
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The Dangers of Abortion Pill Expansion

  Four states — California, Massachusetts, New Jersey,  and New York — are now petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to relax restrictions on abortion pills. As the FDA reevaluates its guidance on abortion pills and states such as Illinois push to keep them readily...
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The Gift of Age

    The room is not quite big enough for everyone who has come. In her reclining chair, the 95-year-old woman takes it all in, with smiles. Her hearing is spotty, her eyesight rather darkened, and her walker ever close to hand. But she is full of delight, for gathered around...
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SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

  The Human Life Review editors invited the participants on the following pages to contribute a reaction to the statement below: In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs, most prolifers believed that Americans were more or less opposed to legalized abortion on demand...
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 Maryland sets up $25 million abortion fund with Obamacare dollars

    Maryland will subsidize abortions using a surcharge on its Affordable Care Act insurance funds. Democratic Governor Wes Moore signed legislation directing $25 million “to fund a program to pay for abortions,” according to the Associated Press. The money for the...
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