A Prayer for the Vulnerable

  This reflection was originally posted on October 21, 2024.  ___________________________________________________ Sometimes it is difficult to know how to pray, and we are helped by the words of others. The following is a prayer for the vulnerable, particularly the unborn,...
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The Ascension of Jesus

  Later this week, Catholics and many Protestants will celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, and you may hear these readings from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians: May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know … what is the surpassing greatness of [God’s]...
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The Great Defender of Life Dinner: November 7th, 2025 Honoring Dr. Christina Francis and Anne Conlon

    WILLIAM BLACKBURN My name is William Blackburn, I am the son of Ross Blackburn, who is a contributor to the Human Life Review. The first Great Defender of Life dinner that I came to, I was 13—dad brought me out—and I was just about the youngest person at the dinner,...
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Leading with Love

  Introduction Good afternoon! I am so glad to be here with you all today. It is a special joy to be back on this campus, which was my professional home up until about a year ago, when the March for Life came calling. Thank you to my long-time friend Elizabeth Kirk and the...
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Be Fruitful and Engineer: The Strange Bedfellows of Modern Pronatalism

Unless the population increases, “the only cultural groups that survive will be the ones that don’t give women a choice,” Malcolm told Jenny Kleeman, a reporter for the Guardian, in May 2025.
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The Logic of Abortion

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all...
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Is AI Pro-Life?

  I have posed the question of whether AI is pro-life to multiple people, and the responses are fascinating but scattered. Some hopped onto their computer or cell phone to query AI applications directly, as if AI models can provide authentic, personal testimony. This...
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Doubling Down on Dignity, for Life

    The struggle to defend human life in all its developmental stages and biological conditions, particularly for defenseless and discarded persons, will not find its footing in the drifting sands of uncertain moral intuitions that guide our secular society. While...
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Life Advice: It’s Greek to Me

  At my New York high school in the 1970s, Brother Andrew would tell a joke to incoming freshmen: “I used to know a little Greek  . . .  but he died.” As street-smart teens, we rolled our eyes, but he knew better than we did. At class reunions, even 50 years on, we all...
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State Litigation Seeks to Curb Mail-Order Abortion

  Pro-life advocates have spent years combatting the rising surge of chemical abortion drugs, which now make up over 60% of abortions in the United States. Admirable efforts have been made to expose the dangers of the pill, as well as the consequences that mail-order...
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