Who Cares about Britney Spears?

    [Marvin Olasky is the co-author (with Leah Savas) of The Story of Abortion in America: A Street Level History, 1652-2022. The following was first published on the Human Life Review’s website.] Why should pro-life people care about singer/sex symbol Britney Spears?...
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“Mere Natural Law” and the Anchoring Truths of Constitutional Order

  [Tom Shakely is Chief Engagement Officer at Americans United for Life. The following book review was published April 29, 2023, on the website of the American Conservative (www.theamericanconservative.com) and is reprinted with Mr. Shakely’s permission.]...
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Forward Into the Culture of Death

  The March for Life never disappoints. No matter the state of the union, the status of legislation at the federal and state level, or the twisted rhetoric of Planned Parenthood and the mainstream media, there is no denying the joyful, dauntless witness of tens of thousands...
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Scarecrow and Tin Man

  After the successful overturn of the national abortion mandate known as Roe v. Wade, the next battle for prolifers is “winning hearts and minds.” The problem is when it comes to hearts and minds someone else got there first.  Or something. The unhinged behavior coming from...
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WHAT THE BELLS SANG: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS by Edward Short

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...
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TO DIE WELL: A CATHOLIC NEUROSURGEON’S GUIDE TO THE END OF LIFE by Stephen E. Doran

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...
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20th Annual Great Defender of Life Dinner Honoring Thomas Brejcha and George McKenna

  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...
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Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

  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...
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An Interview with Terrisa Bukovinac: Progressive Pro-Life Activist and Presidential Candidate

  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...
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A Case for Rescue

  “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...
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