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Jersey Shore Women’s Center, founded and directed by Tricia Bradberry, provides support to all women and their families in a loving environment, connecting them to the resources and services they need. Through all stages of life, we walk alongside women providing education and... Read More →

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of... Read More →

“We want more babies,” said candidate Donald Trump in August 2024.1 He was not wrong. Birth rates in developed nations, including the U.S., have been declining for almost two decades. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 3.6 million babies were born in 2025, the... Read More →

Editors’ note: The following appeared in our Spring, 2012 issue, in the Symposium, “Truth-Telling in the Public Square.” We are pleased to reprint it here in tribute to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, our Great Defender of Life honoree, 2026. His words resonate as much today as they did... Read More →

Many things propel the pro-life movement forward, even in what must often seem the most inauspicious of circumstances. Certainly, no factor is more importunate than conscience—what St. John Henry Newman called in one passage “The guide of life, implanted in our nature,... Read More →

  Introduction Since the pro-life movement first undertook the effort, many decades ago now, to counter the efforts of pro-abortionists to legalize abortion, those on the pro-abortion side have used scare tactics and false accusations in their efforts to consolidate and... Read More →

On the evening of May 24, 1704, a serving woman named Agnes Catherina Schickin walked through the gates of Schorndorf, a fortified town in the Duchy of Württemberg. She approached the first townsfolk she encountered and confessed that she had just murdered a seven-year-old boy in... Read More →

Roe v. Wade’s negative impact on American law, medicine, and culture was deep and pervasive. For two generations, the Supreme Court told Americans that elective abortion was a “fundamental right,” that “the unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole... Read More →

In his lead article, “Building an Enduring Majority for Life,” Clarke Forsythe surveys post-Dobbs America and promotes a path forward. “The Dobbs decision moved control of abortion from the Court to public sentiment,” he writes; no surprise, then, that in this time of “stark... Read More →

[The following is a guest post published in Sarah Terzo’s Secular Seamless Garment, Substack, on April 8, 2026. Rachel MacNair is a director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, the research arm of the Consistent Life Network. Reprinted with the author’s permission.]... Read More →