Maria McFadden Maffucci

DSC_2711is the Editor in Chief of the Human Life Review


Changing the Culture of Contraception

  The euphoria with which pro-life citizens greeted the 2022 Dobbs decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, has faded in the two years since then. As Monica Klem points out in a recent article on National Review’s website, although several state...
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WINTER 2025 FULL ISSUE

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Winter 2025

Ellen Wilson Fielding on THE INALIENABLE GIFT OF HUMAN DIGNITY William Murchison on THE IRRELIGIOUS EMBRACE OF SELF SLAUGHTER Gerard T Mundy on WHEN A NURSE KILLS HER UNAWARE PATIENTS Perry Hendricks on ABORTION RESTRICTIONS ARE GOOD FOR BLACK WOMEN Karl D Stephan on CHANGING THE...
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Summer/Fall 2024: 50th Anniversary Issue

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BOOKNOTES: PITY FOR EVIL: SUFFRAGE, ABORTION, AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN RECONSTRUCTION AMERICA

    PITY FOR EVIL: SUFFRAGE, ABORTION, AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN RECONSTRUCTION AMERICA Monica Klem and Madeleine McDowell (Encounter Books, 2023, hardcover, 328 pages, $34.99) Reviewed by Maria McFadden Maffucci ________________________________________________ In Pity...
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John Smeaton and the Truth of the Sanctity of Life

  On this festive occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Human Life Review, it is right and just that we send up thankful prayers to all the prolifers here in America and abroad who have helped to sustain a movement dedicated not just to unborn life but to what St. John...
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My Controversial Choice to Become Pro-life

  Veteran journalist Nat Hentoff, our Great Defender of Life honoree in 2005, is a selfprofessed atheist who believes as strongly as fervent religious believers do in the inviolability of human life. In the 1980s Hentoff, a nationally known columnist reporting on abuses of...
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Nat Hentoff   Veteran journalist Nat Hentoff, our Great Defender of Life honoree in 2005, is a selfprofessed atheist who believes as strongly as fervent religious believers do in the inviolability of human life. In the 1980s Hentoff, a nationally known columnist reporting on...
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RETRO-DUCTION

    “In our nation, certainly, the rule has been that even the most unpopular court decisions are, in due course, accepted. (The great exception was Dred Scott.) The proximate reason why is, we’d say, that Americans have granted their judges moral as well as legal...
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Summer/Fall 2024 – 50th Anniversary Issue

Summer Fall 2024 cover GOLD FINAL pages 1 and 3 THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 15.00 PER COPY the HUMAN LIFE REVIEW 5 0 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y I S S U E VOLUME L Nos 3 4 SUMMER FALL 2024 FEATURING WILLIAM F BUCKLEY JR ELLEN WILSON FIELDING WILLIAM MURCHISON...
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