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Waters examines falling birth rates alongside the growth of IVF and fertility technology. She argues for a pro-life approach that addresses underlying infertility while scrutinizing embryo creation, loss and industry incentives.
Read →I beg the indulgence of my prolife readers as I navigate some twists of Christian theology to make a point about our shared affirmation of the personhood of the child in the womb. All Christians observe some form of celebration of “the Lord’s Supper,” what looks like a sharing of bread... The post More Than a Clump of Cells appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgeway announced last week that he and his wife decided to abort their unborn baby with Down syndrome. “This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21. The choice was not made lightly,” he said in a post on X. “I... The post YouTuber and Wife Face Backlash For Aborting Down Syndrome Baby appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →On June 3, a debate about the silent genocide of unborn children with Down syndrome exploded on social media. The unlikely catalyst was an X post by YouTube influencer... The post When Eugenics Goes Viral appeared first on First Things .
Read →The utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer opposes human exceptionalism. Indeed, he contends that being human is irrelevant to determining moral value. What counts are capacities and the ability to suffer. Singer advocates using the term “person” to identify individuals with the highest moral value. Since he believes that personhood is based on capacities, some humans are not persons — the unborn, infants, the profoundly cognitively disabled — while some animals are. This means that those animals matter more morally than the vulnerable humans he so casually depersonalizes. It is thus unsurprisin
Read →Lawler comments on Catholic institutional debates that include the Church’s public witness on abortion and human life. He treats the issue as part of a broader dispute over whether enduring moral teachings can be reframed by changing pastoral priorities.
Read →WASHINGTON, D.C. — June 4, 2026 — At the Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC), we have long argued that surrogacy law in the United States contains serious gaps that leave women and children vulnerable to exploitation and harm. Today, those concerns are finally receiving attention at the federal level. Rep. Scott Perry has introduced two […] The post Closing the Surrogacy Loopholes No One Should Have Left Open: Protecting Children in the Surrogacy Era appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Read →This is the worst “I told you so” ever. In the committee hearing for Washington State’s Uniform Parentage Act (UPA) which will legalize commercial surrogacy, award parental rights to any adult(s) who can acquire a child through reproductive technologies, and make parenthood gender neutral, the bill’s sponsor stated what traditional marriage supporters have known all along: “redefining marriage redefines parenthood.” Around minute 54 Senator Pedersen says, Then 6-7 years ago now, we anticipated a lot of what’s in UPA 2017 and made most of our act gender neutral. We were the first of a number of
Read →As personhood advocates, shouldn’t we rejoice that more precious children have been born into the world? After all, every child is a gift from God. While this popular practice allows couples to fulfill their own desires for children, surrogacy must nonetheless be examined in light of its effects on the children born via surrogacy as well as on the surrogates themselves. Source
Read →Waters introduces Rethinking Fertility as a project examining infertility and reproductive technology from a life-affirming Christian perspective. She argues that a consistent belief that life begins at conception requires greater scrutiny of IVF, embryo selection, freezing and destruction.
Read →In a newly released paper in the prestigious journal Bioethics, three prominent bioethicists argue that when someone decides to commit suicide via self-starvation and dehydration — known in euthanasia movement parlance as “voluntary stop eating and drinking” (VSED) — doctors should be allowed to “terminally sedate” the person trying to die when necessary to prevent intractable suffering. Patients who commit VSED are often not terminally ill. In fact, euthanasia organizations promote self-starvation to the elderly who are not dying and as a means of becoming eligible for assisted suicide where
Read →What should Catholics do when a family member chooses IVF? Can you attend an IVF baby shower? How do you love someone while upholding Church teaching on IVF, frozen embryos, and the dignity of every child? In this episode, Fr. Shenan Boquet discusses one of the most emotionally difficult questions facing Catholic families today: how… The post When a Family Member Chooses IVF: What Catholics Can Do | Fr. Boquet appeared first on Human Life International .
Read →HUMAN EMBRYO ADOPTION, VOLUME TWO: CATHOLIC ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST Edited by Trent Horn and Kent Lasnoski (National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2025, paperback, 396 pp., $34.95) ___________________________________________________ THE ZYGOTE OF CHRIST AND THE MYSTERY OF MAN Francis Etheredge and El... The post BOOKNOTES: HUMAN EMBRYO ADOPTION, VOLUME TWO: CATHOLIC ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST / THE ZYGOTE OF CHRIST AND THE MYSTERY OF MAN appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →What happens when science gains the power not only to heal human life, but to redesign it? Scientists are now creating lab-made embryos from stem cells, experimenting with three-parent embryos, pursuing gene editing technologies like CRISPR, and exploring ways to grow human life outside the womb. What once sounded like science fiction is rapidly becoming reality. In this episode of Bioethics Babe, internationally recognized stem cell researcher and bioethics expert Dr. David Prentice of the Science Alliance for Life and Technology (SALT) exposes the ethical dangers behind lab-made embryos, des
Read →Andersen argues that the pro-life movement has not consistently applied its belief that life begins at conception to IVF practices. She calls for greater attention to embryo destruction, freezing and selection while maintaining compassion for families experiencing infertility.
Read →My name is Jessica Kern. I am a product of a traditional surrogacy. This is where a surrogate is hired to both donate her egg and carry the child to term… As a product of surrogacy I can tell you firsthand what we children of donor conception go through. Children of surrogacy, just like children of a traditional adoption, deal with all the traumas that go along with adoption. We want to know where we come from. We want to know who our biological mothers are. We want to know who gave birth to us and what they are like. We are curious about their family and other siblings we may have. I spent th
Read →My name is Brian and I am the son of a traditional surrogate, a biological father, and an adoptive mother. I think all of you here need to know how I feel about surrogacy. I have read a certain popular surrogacy board since I was 16 and I am almost 18 now. I was going to wait until I was 18 to open my mouth but I just can’t stand reading all of this stuff anymore. It was something in one TS’s post that really set me off. And it was not just her, it’s everybody attitude. “if you go into this feeling that this is “your” baby then you should not be a TS. This baby is NOT yours. It is your egg don
Read →Leading fertility organizations including ASPIRE, ESHRE, ASRM, and IFFS have proposed global consensus guidelines on surrogacy at the ASPIRE Congress 2026, aiming to establish minimum standards for surrogacy practices worldwide. These guidelines have been criticized for ignoring the United Nations' call for the abolition of surrogacy due to exploitation risks, and for being developed without the input of surrogate mothers or independent human rights experts, raising concerns that they serve to preserve rather than dismantle the surrogacy industry.
Read →Coauthored with Stop Surrogacy Now UK The recent police raid on the home of Barrie Drewitt-Barlow in the UK—linked in reporting to a human trafficking investigation—has reignited scrutiny over the surrogacy industry and the legal structures surrounding it. According to reporting, Essex Police carried out coordinated searches as part of an investigation into allegations including […] The post The Dark Side of Surrogacy: Loopholes, Predators, Fraud, & Systemic Failure appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network .
Read →More than 30 years ago when American Life League created the iconic sign with the tagline “Face It. Abortion Kills a Person,” we could not fathom the enormity of the growing threat within the fertility industry. Doctors Steptoe and Edwards had been researching and manipulating human embryos in an effort to discover a medical treatment […] The post PRO-LIFE BASICS: The Dangers of In Vitro Fertilization appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine .
Read →Uterine transplants are becoming more common to enable infertile women — and perhaps, eventually men — to give birth. How’s that project going? A new study detailing the outcomes of more than 40 cases of uterine transplants and subsequent IVF-enabled pregnancies published in JAMA provides details: Between 2016 and March 2026, a total of 44 women underwent uterus transplant. One month after uterus transplant, 37 women had a viable transplanted uterus. As of April 2026, a total of 33 women underwent embryo transfer (90 embryos), resulting in 47 clinical pregnancies in 31 unique women, 39 of whic
Read →The pro-life concerns about in-vitro fertilization are manifold, but this might be a new one: For parents with a specific family size in mind, it could lead to successful pregnancies followed by a natural pregnancy that ends with abortion. A Democratic candidate for Congress confessed on a po... The post NEWSworthy: Democratic Candidate Uses IVF, Then Has An Abortion for the ‘Environment’ appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →There’s a growing conversation within the pregnancy help movement—one that many would rather avoid, but one we cannot afford to ignore.
Read →How have feminism, transgenderism, and the Sexual Revolution propelled the recent increase in single men applying to raise children via surrogacy? Holly Baines explores the issue Since single people were granted the same surrogacy rights as couples in 2019, the number of single men pursuing parenthood through surrogacy is steadily increasing. Between 2019 and 2025, ... The post Single-parent surrogacy: the dark conclusion of the Sexual Revolution appeared first on Christian Concern .
Read →In 1984, a Virginia physician named H. Barry Jacobs announced a plan to broker human kidneys on the open market. Congress responded within months. The National Organ Transplant Act... The post Surrogacy Is Already Illegal appeared first on First Things .
Read →By Judie Brown The simple fact that every human being has a similar beginning as a single cell fertilized egg seems to be more than some people can comprehend. This came into stark focus when we read Professor Risa Cromer’s article entitled “Embryo Personhood’s IVF Problem: What the Data Reveals.” Cromer closes her article with… Read More » Embryo Personhood The post Embryo Personhood appeared first on ALL .
Read →Olivia Maurel, who went 30 years before knowing that she was separated from her biological mother at birth, has become an international advocate fighting for the … The post Woman born via surrogacy speaks out about trauma, injustice involved appeared first on CatholicVote org .
Read →Catherine Wheeler recounts leaving abortion practice and explains her current approach to medical ethics. She criticizes aspects of abortion-pill provision and argues for medicine that protects both pregnant patients and unborn children.
Read →George Delgado discusses his book and his advocacy of progesterone treatment after mifepristone. The interview presents his claims about abortion-pill reversal, informed consent, and medical ethics rather than an independent evaluation of the evidence.
Read →If we’re just matter, why do we matter? Modern bioethics is built on a question most people never stop to ask: What is a human being? Because the answer to that question isn’t abstract, it determines how we treat the most vulnerable people among us. From IVF and embryo selection, to assisted suicide and end-of-life care, to gene editing and transhumanism. We are already making decisions about who counts and who doesn’t. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ashley Fernandes, a physician, bioethicist, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Associate Director o
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