Maria McFadden Maffucci

DSC_2711is the Editor in Chief of the Human Life Review


MADAME RESTELL: THE LIFE, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF OLD NEW YORK’S MOST FABULOUS, FEARLESS AND INFAMOUS ABORTIONIST

  by Jennifer Wright (Hachette books, New York, 2023, 334 pp.) Reviewed by Maria McFadden Maffucci ________________________________________________ Crawling through this “pop history” book on Madame Restell brought to mind “The Piranha Brothers,” a memorable skit from the...
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Spring 2023 FULL ISSUE

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Spring 2023

As I write legislative battles over abortion once again travel to and from the Supreme Court this time over the safety of the so called abortion pill mifepristone We continually report on fast changing developments on our website www humanlifereview com where senior editor...
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BOOK Review: TWO PATIENTS: MY CONVERSION FROM ABORTION TO LIFE-AFFIRMING MEDICINE

    TWO PATIENTS: MY CONVERSION FROM ABORTION TO LIFE-AFFIRMING MEDICINE Dr. John Bruchalski with Elise Daniel (Ignatius Press, 2022, paperback, 185 pp., $17.95) Reviewed by Maria McFadden Maffucci _____________________________________________________________________...
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19th Annual Great Defender of Life Dinner

    Anne Manice: Thank you [Jim McLaughlin] for your kind introduction. Thank you, Maria. I remember when you were thinking of taking on the Human Life Review after your father’s death, I said, please continue it because you’re our intellectual sustenance. We’re in the...
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Winter 2023

Unlike the public at large Review readers are likely aware of the months long violent response to the Dobbs decision Still Julia Duins Crisis Pregnancy Centers Suffer Record Attacks may hold surprises
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Introduction Winter 2023

  Unlike the public at large, Review readers are likely aware of the months-long violent response to the Dobbs decision. Still, Julia Duin’s “Crisis Pregnancy Centers Suffer Record Attacks” may hold surprises. It did for me. I didn’t know, for instance, that in July the home...
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WINTER 2023 FULL ISSUE

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“Liberty to Do What?”

  [On June 1, 2022, the Human Life Foundation hosted a panel discussion inspired by George McKenna’s “The Odd Couple: Freedom and Liberty” (published in the Fall 2021 edition of the Human Life Review). McKenna, who began the evening with a summary of his essay, was joined by...
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FALL 2022 FULL ISSUE

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