APPENDIX A: Mothers Who Keep Their Fatal Pregnancies Turn To Faith: “Who am I to kill this baby?”

[Julia Duin is a longtime investigative journalist and author. The following article was published on Religion Unplugged (www.religionunplugged.com) on October 24, 2024, and is reprinted with the author’s permission.] __________________ When Mariella Aitana Guerrero was born on a...
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JD Vance, Maria Theresa, and Catholic Rule

I Recently, I attended the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, and was struck by the enthusiasm in certain quarters for what the guest speaker— Vice President JD Vance—might portend for improved relations between the American Church and the American State. Of course, in...
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The Selling of Kate Cox: How the Media Failed to Report the Full Story

Kate Cox should be cradling a little boy right now—a three-month-old at this writing and very much a wanted child. In late 2023, the Dallas-area mother of three (living) children became the focal point of one of the savviest PR efforts in America’s 52-year-old debate over...
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Playing Politics with the Abortion Pill: A Quarter Century of Abuse of Power at the FDA

  Introduction Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal, Satire VI, lines 347–348). For some 2,000 years, the problem of “who guards the guardians” has challenged good governance. The fundamental rights of every person, including the right to life, depend on a government...
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An Interview with John Hinshaw

[John Hinshaw, who served 17 months in jail after being convicted for peaceful protest at a Washington DC abortion clinic, is one of 23 prolifers pardoned by President Donald Trump on January 22, the day before the 2025 March for Life. Bernadette Patel recently interviewed Mr....
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Rescuers Will Rescue

After a stint in federal prison—where, in addition to separation from loved ones, some experienced violent surroundings, poor food and medical care, and limited access to religious services—twenty-three pardoned pro-life activists are not retreating from their mission. If...
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The Time of Trump

The up-and-down-around-and-around-here-today-who-knows-where-tomorrow presidency of Donald J. Trump leaves a writer—not to mention the majority of us—in guessing mode, hands over eyes. Gee, if we say something searching, something discerning about our president’s second White...
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SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

  The Human Life Review editors invited the participants on the following pages to contribute a reaction to the statement below: In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs, most prolifers believed that Americans were more or less opposed to legalized abortion on demand...
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One Year in the Holy Father’s Defense of the Unborn

In September 2013, Pope Francis made international headlines when, in his first major interview as pope, he challenged Catholics to move beyond the culture wars in the way they spoke about abortion. Francis told Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, “We cannot insist only on issues related...
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APPENDIX G: A Symphony of Hope: Reflections on the March for Life

  [Eva Cooley is a passionate prolifer who works in the communications department at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The following report, published on January 29, 2025, is her first contribution to the Human Life Review’s website feature NEWSworthy...
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