ABORTION AND THE FILIBUSTER

So, the New York Times tells us, Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” to change Senate rules and ban filibusters of judicial nominations[1] was driven by—surprise!—the desire of Senate Democrats to put radical pro-abortionists on the federal bench. Our self-proclaimed national “paper of...
Read More →

Buckley Quote

“This powerful journal is quite simply the locus of civilized discussion on abortion, euthanasia and related issues.”                                             ...
Read More →

Hentoff Quote

“By far the most valuable and challenging pro-life journal that, to my knowledge, has ever existed.”                                        ...
Read More →

Helen Alvare quote

“The Human Life Review constantly gives me hope, by reminding me of how many fine minds have felt the cause of human life to be worthy of their intellectual labors. It is the place where the movement for human life does its thinking.”  –Helen Alvare
Read More →

From the Editor: On Hijacking Immigration Uproar

As I write this, the Human Life Review is seeing an unprecedented amount of public reaction to a single article in our last issue: Mario H. Lopez’s “Hijacking Immigration?” Several conservative and pro-life groups have reported on it favorably and/or shared it (such as the...
Read More →

Testing Down Syndrome to Death

At one time or another, all of us have fallen for a lie that we wanted to believe. Have you heard that nine out of ten babies with Down syndrome are aborted? I first came across this shocking statistic in a New York Times article published in May 2007, just two months after my...
Read More →

The Truth About Abortion in Ireland

Last October a pregnant woman died in an Irish hospital in circumstances that made headlines all around the world. The woman in question was Savita Halappanavar, an Indian woman working in Ireland who was admitted to Galway University Hospital while miscarrying. Tragically, she...
Read More →

Is the IRS Targeting Prolifers?

While it is clear that the IRS has targeted Tea Party groups for special investigation, it appears that the agency may also have focused on religious, pro-life, and pro-marriage groups and individuals—refusing them tax-exempt status, and sometimes, as in the case of the Coalition...
Read More →

Rejoinder to Peter Steinfels

  Dear Peter, I hope that you will not take it amiss if I write this in a more informal style than we’ve been using, but my feeling is that now may be a good time to engage in direct dialogue. Wasn’t it something like that which you first proposed to Anne Conlon after reading my...
Read More →

THE PRO-LIFE MESSAGE OF TWO CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

        “Culture of life” is a term Blessed John Paul II highlighted in his 1995 encyclical, Evangelium vitae. The Pope wanted to address the civilizational struggle afoot between the “culture of life” and the “culture of death,” the latter understood as...
Read More →