Euthanasia, the Looming Frontier

    The reports from Canada are particularly disturbing. “Medical Assistance in Dying” is the term used there—MAiD it is called—and in the few years since the Canadian supreme court found a fundamental right to demand medical assistance with one’s death, the numbers...
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Who Is Speaking Up for the Unborn?

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 14 that he had selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Given Kennedy’s history of supporting abortion, this nomination should concern pro-life advocates, argues Joe Carter, a...
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Witness to the Truth

    This year the last Sunday in November (in the Catholic calendar) is the last Sunday of the Christian year, the feast of Christ the King. Twenty-first century Christians believe in Jesus Christ as King though most do so with little understanding of the nature of real...
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Wyoming Judge Finds ‘Right’ to Abortion in State Constitution

    A Wyoming judge has once again found a reason to block the state’s lifesaving laws. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens said the state constitution prohibits two laws in Wyoming, the Life Act and Medication Abortion Ban. Judge Owens read a “right” for a woman...
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The Road Uphill After Dobbs

  “Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.” —Christina Rossetti, “Up-Hill” Since I first encountered the poem “Up-Hill” in my teens, these lines never fail to come to mind when life hits a rough patch. In the post-Dobbs, postmodernist, and increasingly...
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Letter from a Friend

    “Sir William.” That’s how my late husband often began memos to Bill Buckley, and scads of memos there were, after Jim McFadden’s cancer took his voice in 1996. Most though began “Dear Bill,” and dear he was to our family—godfather to one of our daughters—and to all...
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RETRO-DUCTION

    “In our nation, certainly, the rule has been that even the most unpopular court decisions are, in due course, accepted. (The great exception was Dred Scott.) The proximate reason why is, we’d say, that Americans have granted their judges moral as well as legal...
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Preface: Summer Fall 2024

“You have raised the ethical question,” wrote William Buckley to J.P. Mc- Fadden in 1980, “whether we have sublimated privacy into the license to take life. I cannot imagine that anyone is engaged in a sustained endeavor of moral introspection more important than yours; nor...
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Jim and Faith McFadden: Faithful Servants of Truth

    The 50th Anniversary Dinner of the Human Life Review was held on November 13th at the Union League Club in New York City. I was privileged to be present. It was a wonderful gathering of friends who all agree that there is nothing more important in life than to do...
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Into the Silence

    There is something about the deep darkness of a cave that brings a hush over everyone who enters. Last week, in our ongoing effort to explore our new home in the Southwest, we visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Seeing the Caverns had been on my husband’s wish...
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