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  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... Read More →

  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... Read More →

    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... Read More →

  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... Read More →

    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... Read More →

This article was originally posted June 10, 2025, on Ed Mechmann’s Public Policy Blog, Stepping Out of the Boat.   New York State’s government, already infamous for its hostility to life in the womb, has taken another tragic step towards the moral abyss – the State... Read More →

  “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy . . .” So goes the opening aria in George Gershwin’s 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Summer is upon us now and easy it is—or is supposed to be! School is out; vacation time beckons. It is the season to put aside, as much as possible,... Read More →

  Is the abortion drug mifepristone truly “as safe as Tylenol”? A new report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center is disputing the claim. Data from the report reveals the real world failure rate of mifepristone is at least 5.26% — double the rate from U.S. clinical... Read More →

  The late John Courtney Murray, S.J., once told me that at a convention he attended, a Protestant theologian said to him in a rather worried tone of voice, “I don’t see how we can base a foreign policy on the Sermon on the Mount.” Replied Fr. Murray, “I never thought we... Read More →

  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled  May 11 (U.S. Mother’s Day) that motherhood by surrogacy trumps motherhood by genetics in terms of “legal parentage.” Baby Sophia was produced through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and born in 2022.  She was born to a surrogate mother and her... Read More →