APPENDIX B: BREAKING THROUGH: The Culture of Life in Arts and Entertainment

    [On June 29, 2024, the Human Life Foundation hosted a conference, “Breaking Through: The Culture of Life in Arts and Entertainment.” The full day included talks and panel discussions on film and literature, live performances of poetry, music, and drama, and...
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APPENDIX A: “Intellectual backbone” to the pro-life movement celebrates 50 years

[John Burger, who writes for the online journal Aleteia, is the author of At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine. The following article was published December 24, 2024 (www.aleteia.org) and is reprinted with permission.]   If it had happened today, James P. McFadden...
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The Prodigal Son and “Love Them Both”

  “Love them both”—I have long appreciated the way this pro-life slogan acknowledges the sincerity in pro-choice expressions of concern for women’s welfare while inviting everyone to consider the humanity of the child as a subject of our love. When I input the slogan, my...
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To Bury the Dead

  On February 18, an Ohio judge ruled that a Buckeye State law requiring that the remains of aborted unborn children be either interred or cremated violated a (state) constitutional amendment passed in 2023 to protect abortion rights. The law, passed in 2021 after...
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The Human Life Review’s 50th Anniversary Gala

50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA November 13, 2024 The Union League Club, New York City At mid-day on November 13th, the day of our 50th anniversary gala, Amtrak had a complete shutdown of service between Wilmington, Delaware, and New York City. Sadly, our co-host, and Great Defender of...
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Down Syndrome Day?

  Have you ever wondered why we see so few children with Down syndrome today compared to past generations? The single biggest reason is that in the United States roughly 9 out of 10 babies are aborted if they are diagnosed with Down syndrome as a result of prenatal...
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The Singularity Is a Mirror

Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil’s 2005 book The Singularity Is Near was a landmark in technological thought. In that book, Kurzweil summed up the progress of computer and other forms of technology in order to formulate a vision for the future of human beings in an increasingly...
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Planned Parenthood’s ‘Lack of Resources’ Endangers Women While Organization Spends Millions on Abortion Activism

  Planned Parenthood, an organization celebrated among the pro-abortion Left for “championing women’s rights,” is imploding its own narrative. Nationwide, clinics are sinking in lawsuits — and occasionally sewage. Even the New York Times admits as much. In a recent exposé on...
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Changing the Culture of Contraception

  The euphoria with which pro-life citizens greeted the 2022 Dobbs decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, has faded in the two years since then. As Monica Klem points out in a recent article on National Review’s website, although several state...
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Murders in Kansas; Marked for Life

  The mid-to-late fifties were a good time to grow up in Garden City, Kansas—a town of 10,000. My mother never lacked love, energy, dreams, and the most encouraging words. My father modeled a work ethic, held us accountable, and shared his wisdom, including how to be...
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