Maria McFadden Maffucci

DSC_2711is the Editor in Chief of the Human Life Review


INTRO Winter 2021

  Recently while listening to a Jordan Peterson podcast I heard the bestselling author say this: “Those who formulate the best arguments win. They win everything.” Well then, I thought, why haven’t we won? Why hasn’t the movement for life turned back the movement for death?...
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Why My Brother Won

Robert and I used to commiserate with each other about this: how the violence allowed the media to paint us all as extremists, how frustrating it was to see the harm that the Pensacola killings did to the movement. I remember one day last August, a few weeks after the Hill...
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TRIBUTE JOURNAL 2020

Hello friends! As you know,  we decided to cancel this year’s Great Defender of Life dinner, which was scheduled for October. The Foundation’s Board and staff agreed that things in New York City were just too unstable and it would be an unjustified risk to proceed. Nevertheless,...
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HOT TOPIC: (Newsmax) Roe v. Wade — A Precedent to Be Deplored

In his majority opinion in June Medical Services v. Russo, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “I joined the dissent in Whole Woman’s Health and continue to believe that the case was wrongly decided. The question today however is not whether Whole Woman’...
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HOT TOPIC: Churches Set for Holy Battle to Open in New York

https://www.newsmax.com/mariamcfaddenmaffucci/churches-new-york-cuomo-dolan/2020/05/21/id/968299/ Perhaps the cardinal’s intensity reflected growing frustration with our secular prince, Gov. Andrew Cuomo? Dolan ended his powerful, moving homily with a saying popularly...
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HOT TOPIC: Matilda’s Law, Cuomo Fail to Protect NY’s Most Vulnerable (Newsmax)

As has become more and disturbingly clear, while Cuomo eloquently talks the talk, his actions have left unprotected thousands of other people’s vulnerable mothers and fathers—along with their devoted caregivers.
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HOT TOPIC: Coronavirus Exposes Fixations on the Wrong Priorities

  In an unprecedented moment when much of the world is under quarantine to protect vulnerable human lives, some conservatives are preaching utilitarianism or letting partisan loyalties lead them to denial of the facts.An egregious instance is former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s...
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HOT TOPIC: News Flash Chuck Schumer — You Don’t Speak for Me

https://www.newsmax.com/mariamcfaddenmaffucci/gallup-roberts-russo/2020/03/12/id/958046/   A recent Gallup poll found that 51 percent of American women consider themselves “pro-life.” I’d say quite a few them are angry — at Schumer. Another recent poll, the...
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HOT TOPIC: ‘One Child Nation’ a Heartrending Documentary on China’s Brutal Policy

https://www.newsmax.com/mariamcfaddenmaffucci/one-child-nation-china-abortion/2020/01/16/id/950084/   “One Child Nation” is a riveting, heartrending documentary, which won the coveted U.S. Grand Jury Sundance prize, and, though it didn’t make the final list, was shortlisted...
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HOT TOPIC: What Do Libertarians Believe About Abortion? (Newsmax)

Read Maria’s excellent piece here:   In human history, when a group of people is considered dangerous (the Jews in Nazi Germany) or private property (African slaves in the U.S. before the Civil War), they are de-humanized as a first step to rationalize their...
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