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More Than a Clump of Cells

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Trump Moves to Expand IVF Access

  Infertility is a national dilemma, but the Trump administration’s answer to it is not one pro-lifers can fully get behind. President Donald Trump last week proposed a new rule for employers to provide stand-alone coverage for fertility benefits, aside from standard health...
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NEWSworthy: Democratic Candidate Uses IVF, Then Has An Abortion for the ‘Environment’

  The pro-life concerns about in-vitro fertilization are manifold, but this might be a new one: For parents with a specific family size in mind, it could lead to successful pregnancies followed by a natural pregnancy that ends with abortion. A Democratic candidate for...
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Mailed Abortion Pills and Victimization: Part 1—Abusers

  Rosalie Markezich loved working with children at her daycare job.1,2 According to documents uploaded by Louisiana Right to Life, she looked at the positive result of her pregnancy test and smiled. However, she was apprehensive about her boyfriend’s reaction. Should she...
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More Than a Clump of Cells

    I beg the indulgence of my prolife readers as I navigate some twists of Christian theology to make a point about our shared affirmation of the personhood of the child in the womb. All Christians observe some form of celebration of “the Lord’s Supper,” what looks...
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The Ethics of Fetal Implants

In September 1987, an operation took place at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico...
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What the Abortion Argument Is About

Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Britain’s best-known authors, a prolific writer...
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From the Editor: On Hijacking Immigration Uproar

As I write this, the Human Life Review is seeing an unprecedented amount of public...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

   “No issue in U.S. history has produced such an impressive and sustained outpouring...
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