By Judie Brown A recent editorial in The Hill contains the following about the personhood of the preborn baby: “Personhood advocates are the hard-core, no-compromises wing of the anti-abortion movement, insisting that fertilized eggs deserve full legal and constitutional rights from the moment of conception. A defining trait is their opposition to any exceptions for rape or incest in laws… Read More » When Wise Guys Opine The post When Wise Guys Opine appeared first on ALL .
In this episode of Solid Ground, Simon shares good news coming out of Missouri (USA) around babies born alive; a UN representative calling Australia out for its gender madness and surrogacy laws; and new research showing that cannabis use harms young people. The post Solid Ground – 25 August 2026 appeared first on Family First NZ .
On Wednesday, August 12, a baby boy was born three weeks early in a hospital near Dallas. This is hardly an unusual event. However, that this particular child was born was a near miracle. Baby Gabriel had been the target of a conspiracy against his life that nearly resulted in his destruction, and which has… The post Baby Gabriel and the Abortion Clause: The Dark Reality of Surrogacy appeared first on Human Life International .
Van Maren recounts the abortion prosecution of British physician Aleck Bourne and its influence on subsequent legal changes. He traces Bourne's later opposition to abortion and links to a longer version published by Canadian Physicians for Life.
Baby Gabriel is alive and recovering from his first major heart surgery in his biological parents’ custody while they sue the surrogate who refused to abort him. The case captured national attention when it broke about two weeks ago, raising serious questions about IVF, commercial surrogacy and what happens when adults disagree about whether a […] The post Update: Baby Gabriel Survives First Heart Surgery; Biological Parents Sue Surrogate appeared first on Daily Citizen .
The subtitle of the revised and updated version of my book criticizing utilitarian bioethics, Culture of Death, is, “The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.” Helping patients kill themselves by self-starvation and dehydration — known in euthanasia parlance as VSED (for voluntary stopping eating and drinking) — certainly fits that designation. Two major medical associations now have endorsed doctors assisting in such suicides by palliating the painful symptoms to help patients go all the way to death. The first was the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in 2023. This is especial
It feels like whiplash at the CBC. Everywhere we turn, someone is talking about surrogacy. After years of euphemisms and carefully crafted messaging, the realities of commercial surrogacy are finally breaking into the mainstream. A growing number of high-profile cases are exposing what the industry has worked hard to obscure: surrogacy depends upon profound disparities […] The post Surrogacy Gets a Reckoning appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Dr. Kody W. Cooper What else is a surrogacy contract but the treatment of unborn human beings as chattels to be traded for money and discarded if the “product” is “defective”?
Meyrat examines a reported dispute in which surrogate mother McKenna West refused an intended couple's request to abort a baby with a heart condition. He uses the custody and treatment conflict to argue that commercial surrogacy compromises children's dignity and makes their protection depend on contractual demands.
Medical professionals can provide realistic and compassionate support to parents living with children who have trisomy 13 and 18 by avoiding certain discouraging statements and offering encouraging communication. A full study on this topic is available at journals.sagepub.com, and related guidance on building trust with these parents has been published by Secular Pro-Life.
To protect women and children, we have to let go of the illusion that surrogacy is anything other than a form of human trafficking. Today, women everywhere are finding it harder than in previous years to get and keep work. Since the start of the pandemic, Forbes reports, more than five millio... The post Renting Wombs, Rending Hearts: The Dark Realities of Surrogacy appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Waters distinguishes egg freezing from embryo freezing while examining how fertility preservation can lead into ethically contested IVF practices. She urges Christian women to weigh medical, theological and pro-life concerns before using fertility technology.
The U.S. Government will lead the international pro-life coalition through the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women’s Health and Strengthening of the Family, with efforts led jointly by the U.S.
After going to Texas to ensure that the child she is carrying was allowed to be born, McKenna West has been commended by the state’s leading pro-life agency.
A Texas district court ruled that UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas were obligated to care for Gabriel, a baby due to be born to surrogate The post Texas court orders hospitals to provide lifesaving care to baby at center of surrogacy dispute appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Wesley J. Smith appeared on In the Market with Janet Parshall on August 13, 2026, to discuss the case of Baby Gabriel, a baby recently born via his surrogate after his parents ordered the surrogate to abort. Smith discussed the specifics of the case as well as the ethical issues with surrogacy. “It treats babies as so many products,” Smith explained. Smith also discussed a recent article from a professional journal calling for wildfires to be treated as a public health emergency. Smith explains why labeling everything a “public health crisis” is a danger to individual freedom. “It’s what I cal
A surrogate mother named McKenna West fled to Texas to protect the baby she was carrying from abortion after the California-based intended parents pressured her to abort due to a treatable heart defect. Texas Governor Ken Paxton intervened and obtained a court order to allow the baby, named Gabriel, to receive treatment after birth, despite the intended parents' refusal to consent to the treatment.
Van Maren condemns the signing of Massachusetts legislation that he characterizes as removing remaining limits on later abortion. The essay uses graphic language and moral argument to criticize the celebration surrounding the bill.
Ferguson responds to changes in Massachusetts abortion law by arguing that human dignity must include children in the womb. He combines legal and medical claims with a Christian case for protecting unborn life and supporting pregnant women.
An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a nurse, entered a surrogacy agreement in Alaska, where she lives, with the intended parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists, LLC, a Connecticut-based surrogacy agency. Typically under gestational agreements like the one that West signed with Gilkar and Ahmed, the intended parents, not the surrogate, have the parental rights to make choices relating to the fetus. The fetus West is carrying was diagnosed with hy
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee has reintroduced a bill that would prevent federal courts from enforcing contract provisions that force surrogate mothers to obtain an abortion. The Preventing Forced Abortions Act of 2026 would also ensure that surrogate mothers would still receive comp... The post Bill Targets Forced Abortions Through Surrogacy Contracts appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Bacus argues that elective abortion late in pregnancy cannot be morally distinguished from killing a newborn on the basis of personhood. The essay focuses on moral status, fetal development and the implications of drawing protection at birth rather than earlier.
In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health emergency” or crisis. Off the top of my head, I can think of several: guns, racism, immigration enforcement, global warming, abortion restrictions, and fear of future pandemics. Now, the editors of The Lancet want to stoke fear of summer wildfires as the pretext to claim yet another public health emergency. From, “Wildfires, a Health Emergency“: Europe is burning. Wildfires in France and Spain have engulfed hundreds of square miles of land, destroying homes a
This week, Judie discusses the sanctity of life from creation until death and explains that adhering to unequivocal respect for human dignity, even when some loved ones and others may seek a hastier exit for the dying is the ultimate victory in our daily quest for pro-life progress. The post Pro-Life This Week – August 7, 2026 appeared first on ALL .
What happens when a surrogate refuses to abort the baby she’s carrying? This week, Live Action News released an exclusive interview that shines light on a significant moral dilemma surrounding surrogacy: What happens when motherhood is commercialized, and babies are treated like property that can be discarded through a contract? Surrogate Backstory According to Live […] The post Alaska Surrogate Battles to Keep Baby After Abortion Demand appeared first on Daily Citizen .
There is a lie at the heart of most positions in support of abortion. In pursuit of a touted political, social, economic, or biological equality, the child who grows in his or her mother’s womb is said to be something other than what that child plainly is and must logically be. The word “fetus,” for... The post Losing Sight of the Person in Personhood appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Physician Kristin Collier describes the development of her pro-life convictions and their implications for medical practice. The interview connects human dignity, professional ethics, and cultural change beyond abortion's legal status.
While the pro-life conversation is already heated by nature, few topics draw as much division in this sphere as surrogacy. Some believe that the practice commodifies children and rents the […] The post What Does the Bible Say About Surrogacy? appeared first on Focus on the Family .
Andrusko reports on a South Korean appellate decision involving a baby allegedly born alive during a late abortion and then killed. He summarizes the court’s treatment of the defendants and criticizes the legal reasoning surrounding abortion and the newborn’s death.
