Carol Crossed excerpt

 Like the suffrage newspapers, which I collect and display at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum,  the HLR will provide primary resources for future historians and social scientists.     —Carol Crossed, President of Susan B Anthony Birthplace...
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Ronald Reagan Quote

 “The great majority of the American people have not yet made their voices heard, and we cannot expect them to—any more than the public voice arose  against slavery—until the issue is clearly framed and presented. That is exactly what [the Human Life Review] has done so...
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William McGurn Quote

“Jim McFadden knew that a few good words could pack a big wallop. He founded the Human Life Review so that people who might think themselves isolated and overwhelmed would be encouraged to persevere and prevail. We cannot yet say we have prevailed, though we can say this: four...
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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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Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

  THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a good time for us to pause and reflect. Our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people nor enacted by our legislators—not a single...
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