Mourning Brittany Maynard: from Center for Bioethics and Culture Network

read Christopher White’s powerful piece here: Is Brittany Maynard’s death a tradgedy for medicine?
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Defining Down the Deviance of Abortion

New: from The Catholic World Report: Anne Hendershott explains how the language is changing to obscure the real nature of killing unborn human beings. Read Here: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/3491/defining_down_the_deviance_of_abortion.aspx
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NRO Article: “Saluting Young Pro-Lifers”

Once again, Maria McFadden Maffucci is telling it like it is to the press—this time to NRO, about the pro-life movement’s hope in youth. The unborn have become an expendable class of humans; their worth is completely dependent on how their mothers feel about permitting them...
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Maria McFadden Maffucci Interview: October 2014

Stella Morabito interviews Maria for this hard-hitting piece in the Federalist:   http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/21/human-life-review-forty-years-of-fighting-for-human-life-and-dignity/   In the early days of Roe, people would ask: “who can say when life begins?”...
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A Blessed Encyclical

More significant than the debates or documents of the Synod of Bishops that just concluded was the act with which it concluded. Yesterday at the Vatican, Pope Francis again declared in an official way the holiness of one of his predecessors: he beatified Pope Paul VI, the Pope...
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There’s Something About Jahi

Readers of the Human Life Review may recall my article on brain death, in which I explained why I believe that properly diagnosed, brain dead—e.g., total brain failure—is dead [http://humanlifereview.com/total-brain-failure-death/]. I still do. But recent events in the Jahi...
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Jahi McMath: Awake–and Alive?

Wesley J. Smith explains http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/389564/ucla-neurologist-jahi-alive-awake-wesley-j-smith    
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“What’s our society’s excuse?” Thoughts on The Giver

“We do know what murder is. We must become a society where killing the weak and the vulnerable is unthinkable. Jonas is the hero in this movie. He risks his own life not only to save baby Gabriel’s life but also to restore his world to what is true and human, with all...
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Surrogates and Surrogate-conceived Children Speak Out

    Last week ABC’s Nightline aired a special on commercial surrogacy, prominently featuring the Center for Bioethics and Culture’s new documentary film, Breeders: A Subclass of Women? The documentary features a number of women who served as surrogates for other couples...
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