A Living Will Is a Pathway to Euthanasia

In 2014, a controversy erupted in the United Kingdom over a new policy in their national health care system. Called “the Liverpool Care Pathway,” it was touted as a way to ensure that people receive high-quality end-of-life care. The reality turned out to be far different and...
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Against Suicide—Except Assisted Suicide? New York’s Contradiction

In February 2026, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill that will legalize physician-assisted suicide in New York State.1 Going into effect in August 2026, the legislation will allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to New York State residents with active suicidal...
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A Pro-Life Principle: The Right to Migrate

The right to migrate is a principle that draws on the core tenets of the pro-life movement. Asserting this right has also been a key part of challenging enemies of human life who have advocated for eugenics, population control, and abortion. It is therefore important for...
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Heartbeat International on Trial for Spreading Truth

  California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing pro-life nonprofits Heartbeat International and Real Options for $20 million for supporting abortion pill reversal. The trial People of the State of California vs. Heartbeat International & Real Options started June 24,...
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The Moral Deception of “Artificial” Life

  While debates about the ethics of artificial intelligence are raging, a more insidious form of artificiality is sneaking under the radar of the Christian community. Like AI, this new technological effort is based on lies and sleight-of-hand. Unlike AI, which is a...
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God and the New Originalism

The author would like to dedicate this article to his sister Mary Mullaney Kearney who passed away in June of 2024. Former attorney for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Notre Dame Law School graduate, mother of 7, grandmother of 13—with more sure to come—and sibling...
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House Democrats Upset Moms.gov Doesn’t Promote Abortion

  A government website that directs women to resources on nutrition, conception help, and social services near them is flawed because it doesn’t promote abortion, according to Democratic members of Congress. Moms.gov, which launched in May to coincide with Mother’s Day, is...
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About this Issue: Spring 2026

  What exactly is a pro-life journal? This is more than a practical question for our editors; it bears crucially on our shared identity as prolifers, the strategies used to convince others about the inherent dignity of human life and the dire need for protections, and the...
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ABORTION, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICS

  Sadly, death by abortion has always been around. In the ancient world, abortion was prevalent enough that the Hippocratic Oath had to be composed and administered to guide medical doctors away from taking innocent, preborn human lives. In our time, abortion has been...
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Robots and Clones and Humans

  The Human Life Review has a long-standing interest in identifying and encouraging pro-human influences in our culture. I think of them as signs that in the long run, reality comes through. To be anti-abortion or anti-euthanasia, for instance, one has to put ideology ahead...
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