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40 Years Fighting Abortion, Building a Pro-Life Culture Read More →

Once again, Maria McFadden Maffucci is telling it like it is to the press—this time to NRO, about the pro-life movement’s hope in youth. The unborn have become an expendable class of humans; their worth is completely dependent on how their mothers feel about permitting them... Read More →

Stella Morabito interviews Maria for this hard-hitting piece in the Federalist:   http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/21/human-life-review-forty-years-of-fighting-for-human-life-and-dignity/   In the early days of Roe, people would ask: “who can say when life begins?”... Read More →

More significant than the debates or documents of the Synod of Bishops that just concluded was the act with which it concluded. Yesterday at the Vatican, Pope Francis again declared in an official way the holiness of one of his predecessors: he beatified Pope Paul VI, the Pope... Read More →

Wesley J. Smith explains http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/389564/ucla-neurologist-jahi-alive-awake-wesley-j-smith     Read More →

“We do know what murder is. We must become a society where killing the weak and the vulnerable is unthinkable. Jonas is the hero in this movie. He risks his own life not only to save baby Gabriel’s life but also to restore his world to what is true and human, with all... Read More →

    Last week ABC’s Nightline aired a special on commercial surrogacy, prominently featuring the Center for Bioethics and Culture’s new documentary film, Breeders: A Subclass of Women? The documentary features a number of women who served as surrogates for other couples... Read More →

“More than two decades ago—long before we all were transfixed by the rebelliousness demonstrated by Katniss Everdeen in the dystopian society presented in the Hunger Games, or Tris Prior in the dystopian Divergent—Newberry Medal-winning novelist, Lois Lowry published The... Read More →

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a recent interview with Katie Couric,[1]  attacked the majority decision in Hobby Lobby v. Burrwell. Among her logical non sequiturs, one particularly stands out: her claim that Hobby Lobby’s owners cannot “separate [themselves] from the obligations that... Read More →

Doris Gordon, the Jewish atheist pro-life activist who founded Libertarians for Life, died July 7, after a long illness. She was 86. A lifelong resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, Gordon is best known as an advocate for the unborn, although she spent years in the pro-choice... Read More →

The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff premieres on Wednesday at the IFC Center in New York City. Read all about it here: SHOWTIMES: Wed, Jun 25 at: 11:10 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:05 PM, 8:00 PM, 10:10 PM Thu, Jun 26 at: 11:10 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:05 PM, 8:0... Read More →

Jennifer Lahl on Breeders: A Subclass of Women? Jennifer Lahl, Director and Executive Producer of the new documentary film Breeders: A  Subclass of Women? about the experience of women and surrogacy, is president and founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture in Pleasant... Read More →