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Robotic IVF: Technologically Impressive or Morally Problematic?

  Every generation views technological advancement with skepticism. The first cars, airplanes, iPhones and other technologies brought a host of benefits while changing society forever. Most people would argue that these advancements were good, and some argue that the...
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What the 2025 Elections Mean for Pro-Lifers

    Off-year elections in 2025 were an across-the-board setback for the pro-life cause. Gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey resulted in two abortion-on-demand Democrats being elected. New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill is unlikely to be much of a change, though...
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Turn Out to Be Jewelry

  Blossom Keepsakes is a custom jewelry company that creates “heirlooms” from “unused IVF [in vitro fertilization] embryos.”  Claiming “a deep respect for life and the incredible journey families take to create it,” they take excess embryos consigned to them from your in...
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Pro-life Community—Give Thanks!

    Thanksgiving is here. The time to give thanks in an intentional way —in silent prayer and/or before the family feast and/or in a sanctuary service and/or in a public square—has arrived. We give thanks to God, the source of all blessings—graces acknowledged and...
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Should We “Harvest” Fetal Tissue?

Last summer, a medical ethicist received an unusual phone call from a woman whose...
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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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Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? A Symposium

  The Right That Makes Women Grieve George McKenna Every so often, if only to...
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What I Saw at the Abortion: The doctor observed, the man saw.

I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all...
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