Be Fruitful and Engineer: The Strange Bedfellows of Modern Pronatalism

Unless the population increases, “the only cultural groups that survive will be the ones that don’t give women a choice,” Malcolm told Jenny Kleeman, a reporter for the Guardian, in May 2025.
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Is AI Pro-Life?

  I have posed the question of whether AI is pro-life to multiple people, and the responses are fascinating but scattered. Some hopped onto their computer or cell phone to query AI applications directly, as if AI models can provide authentic, personal testimony. This...
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DIY Abortion Returns: From Back Alleys to Bathrooms

  For decades, the most potent image deployed in favor of legalized abortion has been the coat hanger. The message has always been blunt: If abortion is not provided by licensed physicians using sanitized instruments, women will resort to desperate and dangerous methods on...
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Children of Men: Read the Book!

A couple of months ago, several Murchisons rented the DVD of Children of Men, the thennew Alfonso Cuarón movie. At home, in front of our own television set, we watched soberly. I may have watched more soberly, not to say more skeptically, than the others. That would be because I...
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Appendix D: Faith-Based Ministries Discuss how to Further Pro-Life Mission

Prolife leaders from across the country gathered this week to discuss how faithbased ministries are helping to cultivate a society that promotes human dignity and how others can advance the cause. The Leading with Love Conference at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in...
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Appendix C: “Choice” Cannot Coexist with Abortion Coercion

  [John Mize is CEO of Americans United for Life. The following originally appeared August 21, 2025, at National Review Online; reprinted with permission.] In a matter of minutes, anyone can order abortion drugs online and have them shipped to states with even the most...
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Appendix B: The Wrong Tool for Protecting Women from Abortion

  [Clarke D. Forsythe is senior counsel at Americans United for Life. The following article was originally published on September 22, 2025, by National Review Online. Copyright 2025 by National Review. Reprinted by permission.] Proposals to prosecute women for abortion are a...
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Appendix A: Healing after Abortion

  [This interview is reprinted, with permission, from Verily Magazine’s Creativity Issue, Fall 2024.(verilymag.com)] _____________________________________________________________________________________ These days, it’s rare for a day to go by without the topic of abortion...
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 Looking Beyond Disability—to Joy!

  When our sons were diagnosed with autism, I knew life would change for my husband and me—but not in the ways most people imagine. Yes, there were challenges: sleepless nights, therapies, learning new ways to communicate, and adapting our world to theirs. But there were...
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Seen But Not Heard

  I recently made a trip to Tabora, Tanzania, a place most people I know have probably never heard of let alone visited. Certainly, I would not have heard of it but for a connection with the Anglican bishop there, who had repeatedly invited me to visit his diocese. The trip...
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