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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Personhood Refutes Legalized Abortion

  The joy experienced after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization refuted and overruled Roe v. Wade was quickly dashed when President Biden promptly deplored the Supreme Court’s decision, a condemnation that leaders from other democratic nations were quick to join:...
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Ill-Informed: Abortion and the Moral Imagination

Abortion is largely a problem of the imagination. That is not to say, of course, that it is an imaginary problem. (That is what pro-abortion people would say.) In fact, in all of human history, more human beings have been killed before birth than after. Abortionists have killed...
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A House Divided

  Millions of Christians in this country take the issue of abortion very seriously, and they have done much to provide moral and spiritual leadership in the pro-life movement. In the years since the Roe v. Wade decision these defenders of life have founded and supported...
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The Tragedy of Kate Cox

  For her abortion at 20 weeks—five weeks longer than allowed under Texas law—Kate Cox left the state. Where she went I don’t know, nor have I really attempted to find out. Quite likely New Mexico, whose hospitals teem, as I have read, with Texas women desiring to refute the...
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Introduction Winter 2024

  As I write, the news that Kate Cox, who unsuccessfully sued for an exception to Texas’s strict abortion ban, will be a guest of the Bidens at the State of the Union Speech signals prolifers are in for a pounding between now and the November election. But of course we knew...
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Introduction Fall 2023

    You are perhaps used to seeing Ellen Wilson Fielding’s essays bringing up the rear of featured articles; indeed, I am used to placing them there to assure a strong close. But this time our senior editor takes the lead, and what a brilliant one “Descending from...
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Pro-life Persuasion Remains Possible and Necessary

    [Leah Libresco Sargent is the author of Building the Benedict Option. She runs the Substack community Other Feminisms. This article first appeared in National Review magazine (October 14); © 2023 by National Review. Reprinted by permission.]...
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The Exportable Dobbs: Elements Useful in Other Countries

    [The following is a version of a talk presented at the University Faculty for Life conference in June, 2023, in St.Paul, MN. Richard Stith received both his law degree and a doctorate in ethics from Yale University. Long a member of the board of University Faculty...
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APPENDIX A: Toward the New Future

  [The following essay, by our founding editor James P. McFadden (1930-1998), was first published in the Fall 1983 issue of the Human Life Review.] ______________________________________________________________ “This is not the first time our country has been divided by a...
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