NEWSworthy: What’s Happening

and What It Means to You

Welcome to Human Life Review’s new online feature, NEWSworthy, where you will find weekly, timely coverage of news touching on a range of life issues, how they fit within the pro-life movement, and what they mean for you and your community. On such high-stakes topics as these, too often the news reporting around us appears to partake in one extreme or another, whether shrill or agenda-driven. For those looking for fair and human coverage on the issues affecting many lives today, we hope this space provides news worthy of your read.

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Despite Attacks, Pregnancy Resource Centers Help Moms Like Me

    A Massachusetts pregnancy resource center helped my son Sam, and me start on a successful path, and it has been so disheartening to see the same center that helped us now attacked and discredited by Massachusetts politicians. This summer, Massachusetts Governor...
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Abortions in Indiana Have Plummeted, but There Is More Work To Do

  Do abortion bans really work to curb abortion? Advocates of abortion like to argue that they do not, but recent numbers out of Indiana, which has a near-total abortion ban, are promising. There were just 72 abortions reported in Indiana in the first half of the year,...
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Kamala Harris Promotes Abortion Misconceptions

    On the issue of abortion, which Democrats consider their great strength, Vice President Kamala Harris’ only response during the presidential debate to former President Donald Trump’s question about her comfort with abortions in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month...
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Massachusetts launches $1 million campaign against pro-life nonprofits

  Massachusetts state officials are going to war against pro-life nonprofits that give women free diapers and help families provide for their babies and kids. The taxpayer-funded campaign, at a cost of at least $1 million, includes information sheets, graphics, and even...
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Near Tragedy in Texas Highlights Importance of Safe Haven Laws

A teenage mother in Houston recently put her newborn baby boy in a trash bag, tied it closed, and tossed him in a dumpster in the Texas July heat. Fortunately, a passerby heard the baby’s cries and summoned help. The event is shocking. A young mother left her own baby for dead in...
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Planned Parenthood offers free vasectomies, abortions at DNC

    The Democratic National Convention started on Monday with a bang, with activists dressing up as abortion pills and Planned Parenthood offering free vasectomies and abortion medication. A local affiliate of the abortion giant has set up a mobile health center in...
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The Republican Party Betrays Pro-Life Principles

  A version of the following was originally posted July 16, 2024, on the blog of Edward Mechmann “Stepping Out of the Boat.” It is reprinted with permission. How far the Republican Party has fallen since Ronald Reagan wrote the magnificent pro-life manifesto Abortion and the...
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Republican Party platform on abortion shifts from 2016

    Calling itself a “forward-looking agenda,” the new Republican Party blueprint begins with a dedication to the “Forgotten Men and Women of America,” and promises to “restore common sense” and “put America first,” promises that former President Donald Trump has made...
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How the Supreme Court Silenced the Voice of the Fathers

    At the National Catholic Register, John Grondelski reminds us not to forget the father’s role in the fight for life. The Supreme Court may have tried to cut him out of the picture back in 1976, but that doesn’t mean we should forget about him. “Two...
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