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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Colorado Teen Dies From Planned Parenthood Abortion. Media Is Mum 

  A Colorado teen died after undergoing an abortion through Planned Parenthood, though the media and local officials have tried to bury the story. “Eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello died after undergoing an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2025,”...
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God Adopts Little Girls Too

  This text was originally posted on this website Dec 30, 2024 ___________________________________________________   In the ancient world, baby girls were in effect disposable. Women were necessary to produce the next generation, but they could not inherit, fight in wars, or...
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Columnist Claims Biden Wasn’t Pro-Abortion Enough

  Was Joe Biden insufficiently pro-abortion? That would seem to be Carlos Lozado’s conclusion about the former president.  Writing in the New York Times last week, he suggests Democrats lost the presidency in 2024 because they were stuck with Biden, who was not pro-abortion...
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Holy Family

  When a young person joins a religious order, his or her parents often have a sense of loss: they feel that they are having to give up their child; this child has declined to carry on their line; in a sense, this child has left their family. I’m pretty sure my parents felt...
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Planned Parenthood Offers ‘Just In Case Abortion Pills’

    A Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering “Just In Case Abortion Pills,” to women who aren’t even pregnant. These pills, currently offered in two states, Washington and Hawaii, are stocked up before pregnancy begins as an “advanced provision” in the event that an...
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