Embryos, Injuries, and Damages

  This piece originally appeared in Catholic World Report February 24, 2024, and is reposted here with permission.   Falsehoods about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF) deserve refutation. We also need a close examination of the...
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TO DIE WELL: A CATHOLIC NEUROSURGEON’S GUIDE TO THE END OF LIFE by Stephen E. Doran

Stephen E. Doran (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2023, paperback, 219 pp.) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________ Writing about how people died alone during the Covid pandemic, Stephen E. Doran cites Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), a...
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Don’t Lose Pro-Life History

  Since Dobbs was handed down a veritable cottage industry in pro-abortion books has emerged, especially among academic presses, the intellectual gatekeepers concerning what’s considered important scholarship. I remember both Rutgers University Press and the University of...
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2024’s Prolife Marching Orders

  This year’s March for Life—the 50th—occurs Friday. Half a century ago, attorney Nellie Gray was convinced the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade could not go by unmarked by prolife protest. On a shoestring budget, a wing and a prayer, she assembled the first March January...
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The Low Cost of (Some) Labor in Michigan

    Democrats hype themselves as friends of workers and of labor.  But there’s one case—in Michigan of all places!—where they seem ready to favor labor at below minimum-wage rules. In fact, they have no labor rules at all. I’m talking about the labor connected with...
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Virginia Democrats Propose Abortion-On-Demand Amendment

  Virginia lawmakers have introduced radical legislation on abortion. Next month, members of the General Assembly are set to consider the establishment of a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” in the state constitution. Contributor to Human Life Review John...
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How Pro-lifers Can Prepare for 2024

  Pro-lifers may be depressed in the wake of the 2023 off-year legislative elections. The worst defeat was Ohio: Enacting a state constitutional amendment enshrining abortion-on-demand through birth profoundly changes the pro-life dynamics of the state, barring the...
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November Elections: Vital Lessons for Pro-lifers

A MONTH AHEAD OF ELECTIONS …. By the time you read this, November elections will be less than a month away.  A year ahead of presidential elections, 2023 may not attract the attention elections usually do.  But failing to pay attention to them would be a fatal mistake for...
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South Dakota’s Pro-Abortion Amendment: An Analysis

    South Dakota is the latest focus of the juggernaut trying to use initiative-and-referendum to pass a state constitutional amendment legalizing abortion-on-demand.  Like Arizona, pro-abortion forces in South Dakota are aiming to put the amendment on the November 2024...
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Arizona’s Abortion Initiative: An Analysis

    Pro-abortion groups in Arizona are aiming to write abortion into the Grand Canyon’s state constitution, loosely following playbooks already employed in Michigan, Vermont, and California and underway for this fall in Ohio. “Arizona for Abortion Access,”  a...
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