Blessing in Desert Places

    It was August when my husband and I moved last year to the desert Southwest. We arrived in plenty of time to soak up the last month of 100-degree weather. Since then, we have experienced sandstorms that recall in living color the old movies where cowboys wore...
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APPENDIX G: A Symphony of Hope: Reflections on the March for Life

  [Eva Cooley is a passionate prolifer who works in the communications department at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The following report, published on January 29, 2025, is her first contribution to the Human Life Review’s website feature NEWSworthy...
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APPENDIX F: California Settles with David Daleiden, Pro-Life Activist who Exposed Planned Parenthood

  [Kate Quiñones, a graduate of Hillsdale College, is a staff writer for Catholic News Agency and a fellow of the College Fix. The following article was published on January 30, 2025 (www.catholicnewsagency.com) and is reprinted with permission.]   The state of...
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APPENDIX E: How the Pro-Life Generation Is Redefining “Unthinkable”

[John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. The following article was published by the National Catholic Register (www.ncregister.com) on January 20, 2025, and is reprinted with...
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APPENDIX D: A New Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll Shows Strong Support for Pro-Life Policies

[Michael New is an assistant professor of practice at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America and a senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. The following was posted January 27, 2025, on National Review Online...
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APPENDIX C: What Catholics Were Thinking on Election Day

[George J. Marlin is Chairman of the Board of Aid to the Church in Need USA and a member of the Human Life Foundation Board of Directors. His most recent book is Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man. The following article is reprinted with permission from The Catholi...
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APPENDIX B: BREAKING THROUGH: The Culture of Life in Arts and Entertainment

    [On June 29, 2024, the Human Life Foundation hosted a conference, “Breaking Through: The Culture of Life in Arts and Entertainment.” The full day included talks and panel discussions on film and literature, live performances of poetry, music, and drama, and...
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APPENDIX A: “Intellectual backbone” to the pro-life movement celebrates 50 years

[John Burger, who writes for the online journal Aleteia, is the author of At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine. The following article was published December 24, 2024 (www.aleteia.org) and is reprinted with permission.]   If it had happened today, James P. McFadden...
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The Prodigal Son and “Love Them Both”

  “Love them both”—I have long appreciated the way this pro-life slogan acknowledges the sincerity in pro-choice expressions of concern for women’s welfare while inviting everyone to consider the humanity of the child as a subject of our love. When I input the slogan, my...
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To Bury the Dead

  On February 18, an Ohio judge ruled that a Buckeye State law requiring that the remains of aborted unborn children be either interred or cremated violated a (state) constitutional amendment passed in 2023 to protect abortion rights. The law, passed in 2021 after...
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