The Time of Trump

The up-and-down-around-and-around-here-today-who-knows-where-tomorrow presidency of Donald J. Trump leaves a writer—not to mention the majority of us—in guessing mode, hands over eyes. Gee, if we say something searching, something discerning about our president’s second White...
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Netflix Show ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Depicts Abortion As Just Another Choice

  Viewers of Ginny & Georgia, Netflix’s soapy TV show about a young mom and her teenage daughter, likely aren’t watching the show for anything profound. But it’s too bad that despite its subtle pro-life premise — after a teenage pregnancy, Georgia begins the show as a...
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The Dangers of Abortion Pill Expansion

  Four states — California, Massachusetts, New Jersey,  and New York — are now petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to relax restrictions on abortion pills. As the FDA reevaluates its guidance on abortion pills and states such as Illinois push to keep them readily...
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The Gift of Age

    The room is not quite big enough for everyone who has come. In her reclining chair, the 95-year-old woman takes it all in, with smiles. Her hearing is spotty, her eyesight rather darkened, and her walker ever close to hand. But she is full of delight, for gathered around...
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SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

  The Human Life Review editors invited the participants on the following pages to contribute a reaction to the statement below: In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs, most prolifers believed that Americans were more or less opposed to legalized abortion on demand...
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 Maryland sets up $25 million abortion fund with Obamacare dollars

    Maryland will subsidize abortions using a surcharge on its Affordable Care Act insurance funds. Democratic Governor Wes Moore signed legislation directing $25 million “to fund a program to pay for abortions,” according to the Associated Press. The money for the...
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Another Step Towards the Moral Abyss

This article was originally posted June 10, 2025, on Ed Mechmann’s Public Policy Blog, Stepping Out of the Boat.   New York State’s government, already infamous for its hostility to life in the womb, has taken another tragic step towards the moral abyss – the State...
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One Year in the Holy Father’s Defense of the Unborn

In September 2013, Pope Francis made international headlines when, in his first major interview as pope, he challenged Catholics to move beyond the culture wars in the way they spoke about abortion. Francis told Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, “We cannot insist only on issues related...
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Livin’ Easy in God

  “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy . . .” So goes the opening aria in George Gershwin’s 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Summer is upon us now and easy it is—or is supposed to be! School is out; vacation time beckons. It is the season to put aside, as much as possible,...
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Washington Post Tries and Fails to Debunk Study on Mifepristone Dangers

  Is the abortion drug mifepristone truly “as safe as Tylenol”? A new report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center is disputing the claim. Data from the report reveals the real world failure rate of mifepristone is at least 5.26% — double the rate from U.S. clinical...
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