Mothers of the Murdered

  A woman named Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts for murdering her three small children. The question is not whether she did it. The question is what her state of mind was when she strangled them to death, whether she is truly culpable for her actions. From there,...
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The Goodness of Life, Even Unto Death

  A few weeks ago I watched one of our beloved animals die. Our companion and friend for more than twenty years, one of our kitty cats, wizened with old age, lay on our bed with us and breathed his last. We wept over him. I prayed that he would be allowed to go peacefully....
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Losing Sight of the Person in Personhood

There is a lie at the heart of most positions in support of abortion. In pursuit of a touted political, social, economic, or biological equality, the child who grows in his or her mother’s womb is said to be something other than what that child plainly is and must logically be....
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Lawfare Against the Innocent

  Wherever the logic of abortion spreads, institutions grow corrupt as they try to conceal the humanity of the unborn. In May of 2026, Togitani Hinami had her first birthday. One year prior, she was born into a world her mother was already leaving. The day of Hinami’s birth was...
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The Extermination of Baby Ridgway

  Jesse and Ashley Ridgway made national news recently because of their decision to end the life of their unborn child. The child had been diagnosed in utero with Trisomy 21, known to most Americans as Down Syndrome. For the Ridgways, Down Syndrome was, it seems, not...
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Bill Maher: Why Exclude the Unborn from Shared Humanity?

  Recently, some prominent cultural figures have bucked a longstanding American tradition of vilifying people with different political views. When Republicans and Democrats come together to talk to one another as human beings, they often emphasize shared humanity over...
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BOOKNOTES: HUMAN EMBRYO ADOPTION, VOLUME TWO: CATHOLIC ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST / THE ZYGOTE OF CHRIST AND THE MYSTERY OF MAN

HUMAN EMBRYO ADOPTION, VOLUME TWO: CATHOLIC ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST Edited by Trent Horn and Kent Lasnoski (National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2025, paperback, 396 pp., $34.95) ___________________________________________________ THE ZYGOTE OF CHRIST AND THE MYSTERY OF MAN...
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Will to Live, Will to Life

  I recently read news about a British woman named Wendy Duffy, who died in April at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. Duffy’s son, Marcus, passed away some four years ago in a freak accident at their home. Since then, Duffy said, she has wanted to join him in...
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The Fiction of Disposable Relationships

  Rental Family, a Hollywood movie released in late 2025 and streaming this spring on Hulu, raises universal questions about truth, faith, love, life, death, and belonging. Despite some flaws, the pro-life, pro-family message of the film stands out. The plot of the movie,...
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Is It Right to Die?

  On February 6, 2026, New York governor Kathy Hochul signed her state’s Medical Aid in Dying Act into law. It was an “emotional decision,” the governor allowed. “Ultimately, though,” she concluded, “I’m proud that I gave people the choice when life gets really hard that...
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