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  Readers of this journal will be well aware of all that has been happening in Ireland over the last few years. Without really thinking of the consequences, we have been rushing pell-mell into the same set of social norms as most of the rest of the Western world. In fact, to... Read More →

  On this festive occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Human Life Review, it is right and just that we send up thankful prayers to all the prolifers here in America and abroad who have helped to sustain a movement dedicated not just to unborn life but to what St. John... Read More →

  Ever since Christianity was born from the blood of Jesus Christ, it has preached the revolutionary view that each human being is given value by God and deserves respect and protection. From the beginning, this revolutionary view has motivated men and women of faith to... Read More →

  In November 2024, the voters of New York State will determine whether an “Equal Rights Amendment” is added to the state constitution. The stated goal of this amendment is to ban unjust discrimination based on a broad variety of classes and characteristics. Despite this... Read More →

  Veteran journalist Nat Hentoff, our Great Defender of Life honoree in 2005, is a selfprofessed atheist who believes as strongly as fervent religious believers do in the inviolability of human life. In the 1980s Hentoff, a nationally known columnist reporting on abuses of... Read More →

Nat Hentoff   Veteran journalist Nat Hentoff, our Great Defender of Life honoree in 2005, is a selfprofessed atheist who believes as strongly as fervent religious believers do in the inviolability of human life. In the 1980s Hentoff, a nationally known columnist reporting on... Read More →

  Philosophy is the active pursuit of truth. It is not a haphazard collection of ideas. Nor is it the uncritical acceptance of someone else’s set of ideas. Philosophy presupposes two virtues that are rarely combined in the same person: a modesty, untainted by the ego, which... Read More →

    Imagine carrying a baby for nine full months, only to discover weeks post-delivery that the child you carried, delivered, and loved is not your own. This dystopian nightmare became a reality for two couples in California, when Daphna and Alexander Cardinale noticed... Read More →

I. Introduction The loss of a baby in pregnancy, whether from miscarriage or abortion, is grievous. That grief can remain for months or even years, and can fester into significant mental health disorders. In the case of miscarriage, society at large recognizes that because of a... Read More →

  You know Erma Bombeck, and how funny she can be. Millions read her syndicated newspaper column regularly. But sometimes she’s not funny. One of her own favorite columns is reprinted from time to time, when she’s on vacation. Thus, last summer, her fans saw again her sober... Read More →