Lopez quote

“Jim McFadden, the founder of the Human Life Review, was right: We need a record. We need to press and prod and keep a record. Forty years of legal abortion. Complacency, misery, distractions are realities. And the Human Life Review is relentless. Mercifully. We need the Human...
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Greenberg Quote

  “Every time a Review arrives in its plain brown wrapper, its contents illuminate and electrify. Like a flash of lightning on a dark night.”–Paul Greenberg
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McGrew Quote

“In a world of blog posts and hat tips, there is still a pro-life journal that publishes on paper with copious footnotes. The Human Life Review, published by the Human Life Foundation, is a resource that no pro-lifer should be without. . . . Eternal vigilance is the price...
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McKenna Quote

“The arguments in HLR are not going to go away; they are there, in print and in cyberspace. They can’t be destroyed. When fair-minded people read them, they wonder what the reply is. And if the reply of the other side is limited to razzle-dazzle rhetoric and nasty...
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About Us

The Review The Human Life Review is the only publication of its kind in the world: a journal devoted to life issues, primarily abortion (William F. Buckley once praised it as “the focus of civilized discussion of the abortion issue”), but also...
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Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? A Symposium

  The Right That Makes Women Grieve George McKenna Every so often, if only to protect its interests, the Eastern Establishment gets curious about what the natives are doing. So it sends its Stanleys and Livingstones—its scribes—out into the hinterland for a closer look. One...
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Great Defender of Life Dinner: The Human Life Foundation Honors Nat Hentoff

  Also featuring remarks by Wesley Smith and William Murchison October 27, 2005   FAITH McFADDEN: My late husband, James Patrick McFadden, creator of the Human Life Foundation and Founding Editor of the Human Life Review would be—is, I believe—very pleased that we are...
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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade (Fall, 2004)

  The infamous Roe v. Wade1 decision relies directly and indirectly on the work of members of the British and American eugenic societies2 and of eugenics-related groups and initiatives.3 The evidence that eugenics was a basis for Roe helps explain the seemingly...
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Scheidler’s Supreme Victory

“Pro-life action news: Mark Wednesday, Feb. 26, in red letters because it is one big red letter day for the pro-life movement. We were having a slice of cherry pie for breakfast when we got word that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled 8 to 1 that we are not racketeers.” With these...
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The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit

  As a young doctor in the early 1970s, Paul E. Jarrett, Jr., did a number of legal abortions. He began having doubts, though, after the urea-induced abortion of a mental patient. The child, weighing two pounds, was born alive, and the mother screamed, “My baby’s...
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