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Edward Short (Gracewing, 2023, 508 pp.) Reviewed by Ellen Wilson Fielding ________________________________________________ The author of this hefty collection of essays and reviews will be well known to readers of the Human Life Review: For a number of years now Edward Short’s... Read More →

Stephen E. Doran (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2023, paperback, 219 pp.) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________ Writing about how people died alone during the Covid pandemic, Stephen E. Doran cites Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), a... Read More →

  Rev. W. Ross Blackburn: Thank you. Let me briefly give the Invocation. I’m always fascinated by that word—to invoke—especially when you think about what it might mean to invoke God. In effect, an invocation is to ask for the help of the Lord, and not only over this... Read More →

  In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article, published in Newsweek in 1993, I described the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed herself under the influence of the euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward the end of the... Read More →

  Terrisa Bukovinac, who calls herself a “progressive, pro-life Democrat,” is the founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, as well as a Democratic presidential candidate. Her politics, she says, more or less align with Bernie Sanders’, with one exception: She is... Read More →

  “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin.” —Hebrews 12:4 Rescuers are radical realists. It’s important to state this up front in the prolife movement’s flagship intellectual journal because some ardent, hardworking, frontline... Read More →

  The joy experienced after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization refuted and overruled Roe v. Wade was quickly dashed when President Biden promptly deplored the Supreme Court’s decision, a condemnation that leaders from other democratic nations were quick to join:... Read More →

Abortion is largely a problem of the imagination. That is not to say, of course, that it is an imaginary problem. (That is what pro-abortion people would say.) In fact, in all of human history, more human beings have been killed before birth than after. Abortionists have killed... Read More →

  Millions of Christians in this country take the issue of abortion very seriously, and they have done much to provide moral and spiritual leadership in the pro-life movement. In the years since the Roe v. Wade decision these defenders of life have founded and supported... Read More →

    The gentle summer day my friend made her journey from home to hospice was marked by a little parade of loved ones. As the medics carried her to the ambulance, her sisters, husband, and daughter filed out into the sunshine behind her, and for reasons I cannot... Read More →