“Dignity”

A majestic lady recently took her place on a bluff overlooking the mighty Missouri River in South Dakota. On September 17th, a shiny and silvery statue called “Dignity” was unveiled near Chamberlain, a small town on the riverbank, along the route followed by Lewis and Clark as...
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On Faith and Friendship: Remembering Faith Abbott McFadden (1931-2011)

  God blessed my life with the friendship of an extraordinary woman, Faith Abbott McFadden. Many readers of the Human Life Review remember Faith as a senior editor and the wife of HLR founder, James P. McFadden. She was also the mother of five, including the Review’s present...
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Choose this Day Whom You Will Serve

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15). The...
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Henry Hyde and Mother Teresa

“The 54-million-person hole in America.”

  That’s the title of Christian Schneider’s Sept. 25 column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And what a thought-provoking column it is. When Schneider was four, he tells us, his five-year-old sister was killed after a tornado sent a tree crashing into the family’s camper:...
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The Complicated Blessing of Children

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your...
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HOT TOPICS: House Panel Votes to Hold StemExpress in Contempt of Congress After Democrats Stage Walk-Out (The Blaze)

In a statement to TheBlaze, David Daleiden, the founder of Center for Medical Progress, said, “The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Select Investigative Panel has already discovered probable cause that Planned Parenthood and StemExpress profited off of baby body parts...
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Pro-Woman Messaging: The Strategy to Win the Mushy Middle

For more than four decades, pro-lifers have been characterized as advocates for the unborn. Our messaging has been baby-focused, and understandably so: Preborn children are the fatalities of the greatest human rights atrocity in history. But in the process of fighting for the...
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The Planned Parenthood 3% Lie

Planned Parenthood claims abortion is only 3% of what they do and that their priority is “women’s health care.” But does their math add up? https://www.facebook.com/liveaction/videos/10154479443488728/
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HOT TOPIC: How Trump is Splitting the Pro-Life Movement (Dallas Morning News)

Before his quite convenient conversion, Trump had a very clear position on abortion. In 1999, he said on Meet the Press that he was “very pro-choice” in “every respect.” He even supported allowing a procedure sometimes referred to as partial-birth...
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The Before and After of September 11

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I left our apartment with our son James, to take him across town for his second day at a new special education school. As I stood on the crosstown bus, I was thinking about the introduction for the Summer issue of the Human Life Review, which...
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