Failures Real and Imagined 

   This past Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision revoking the “constitutional right” to abortion invented by Roe v. Wade. For those of us who want to see unborn children protected by law, Dobbs was a great...
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Republican Congresswoman Struggles to Get Her Ectopic Pregnancy Treated, Blames Pro-Abortion ‘Fearmongering’

  Representative Kat Cammack, a Florida Republican, waited for hours to receive treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy last year. Medical professionals claimed they were afraid of running afoul of Florida’s six-week abortion ban. Cammack blames misinformation and...
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Chicago Teachers Union Leader Praises Abortion Access

    A Chicago Teachers Union leader says falling enrollment in public schools can be fixed with abortion. A ProPublica piece details how population decline in Chicago has left dozens of public schools way under capacity, threatening their existence. But the vice...
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Florida May Be Paving the Way for Eliminating Minor Abortions without Parental Consent

  When Roe v. Wade established abortion as a fundamental constitutional “right,” how the new “right” would interface with other rights was unclear. Over almost 50 years, the Supreme Court imposed its vision on society. One of the areas of conflict among “rights” involved...
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Pro-Life Advocates Celebrate Major Victory with EMTALA Guidance 

  The Trump administration recently rescinded the Biden administration’s misguided interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, EMTALA. Pro-abortion advocates framed this move as an assault on women’s health and safety, while pro-life advocates...
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Teach Truthfully and Minister Mercifully

    Let’s be honest. Congregations, as well as their pastors and priests, are hesitant, even unwilling, to address abortion either publicly or from the pulpit. We are afraid that we might make somebody in the local church mad. Nevertheless, faithful ministry involves...
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INTRODUCTION: Spring 2025

As I write, news accounts of the pope’s early-morning death on April 21 still ricochet around the internet. This bit from the Wall Street Journal: “Pope Francis, who sought to refocus the Catholic Church on promoting social and economic justice rather than traditional moral...
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APPENDIX B: Media “Gaslighting” and the Popes

[Margaret Hickey, a freelance columnist, writes for the Irish Dominican publication, Alive, and reviews for the Irish monthly magazine Position Papers. The following was originally posted April 29, 2025, on the Human Life Review’s website.] ___________________________________...
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APPENDIX A: Mothers Who Keep Their Fatal Pregnancies Turn To Faith: “Who am I to kill this baby?”

[Julia Duin is a longtime investigative journalist and author. The following article was published on Religion Unplugged (www.religionunplugged.com) on October 24, 2024, and is reprinted with the author’s permission.] __________________ When Mariella Aitana Guerrero was born on a...
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JD Vance, Maria Theresa, and Catholic Rule

I Recently, I attended the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, and was struck by the enthusiasm in certain quarters for what the guest speaker— Vice President JD Vance—might portend for improved relations between the American Church and the American State. Of course, in...
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