Children of Men: Read the Book!

A couple of months ago, several Murchisons rented the DVD of Children of Men, the thennew Alfonso Cuarón movie. At home, in front of our own television set, we watched soberly. I may have watched more soberly, not to say more skeptically, than the others. That would be because I...
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Fall 2025

ABOUT BILL MURCHISON AND SOMETHING ABOUT ME His heart just stopped So spoke Nancy Murchison when she called with the sad news that her husband William Polk Murchison Jr had died in Dallas on Oct 8 And what a big heart his was Bill reported on the unruly clash of politics and...
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Summer 2025

About this issue: This is a summer of much discontent in the US and the world but here you will find hope amidst the woes
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SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

  The Human Life Review editors invited the participants on the following pages to contribute a reaction to the statement below: In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs, most prolifers believed that Americans were more or less opposed to legalized abortion on demand...
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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

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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20th Annual Great Defender of Life Dinner Honoring Thomas Brejcha and George McKenna

  Rev. W. Ross Blackburn: Thank you. Let me briefly give the Invocation. I’m always fascinated by that word—to invoke—especially when you think about what it might mean to invoke God. In effect, an invocation is to ask for the help of the Lord, and not only over this...
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Winter 2024

T H E H U M A N L I F E R E V I E W F E A T U R E D I N T H I S I S S U E A L S O I N T H I S I S S U E THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY William Murchison on THE TRAGEDY OF KATE COX John Bossert Brown Jr on A HOUSE DIVIDED Chris Humphrey on ABORTION...
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Fall 2023

October 17 2023 marked 25 years to the day of the death of our founding editor James P McFadden at 68 years old He died suddenly though not unexpectedly as his cancer was terminal at 4 am on a Saturday just about 12 hours after wed all put the finishing touches on the Fall 1998...
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Summer 2023

cover THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE ALSO IN THIS ISSUE THE HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION INC NEW YORK NEW YORK 10.00 PER COPY William Murchison on THE MORAL CLARITY OF MARY EBERSTADT Alexandra DeSanctis on FEMINISTS AND CONTRACEPTION Anne Hendershott and Lucia Hunt on THE...
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