Abortion Policy, Law & PoliticsCOMMENTARY
Truth and Mercy Are Not Enemies
There is a growing divide in the conversation around abortion—and it is hurting the very people we are trying to serve.
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Movement Leadership & StrategyCOMMENTARY
Truth and Mercy Are Not Enemies: Part 1
There is a growing divide in the pro-life movement—and it is built on a false premise.
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#211 Dr. Dermot Kearney: The First Doctor Banned from Saving Lives - His Fight for APR in the UK
Dermot Kearney discusses providing abortion-pill reversal in the United Kingdom and the professional dispute surrounding that work. The episode presents his account of beginning the service during the pandemic and his claims about its outcomes.
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The Women in the Headlines
The writer examines abortion-related stories centered on women and argues that news coverage can obscure the unborn child and the pressures surrounding abortion decisions. The piece calls for pro-life advocacy that recognizes both women’s circumstances and the humanity of their unborn children.
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A Response for Those Wrestling with the Abortion Abolitionist Argument
I appreciate the heart behind this conversation, because it reflects something I have lived in for decades.
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Do Rape, Incest, and Life of the Mother Justify Abortion? A Bioethicist Responds with Fr. Tad Pacholczyk
Do cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is in jeopardy justify abortion? These are the hardest questions in the abortion debate: emotionally charged, deeply tragic, and often used to challenge the pro-life position. But how should we think about these cases from a medical, ethical, and human perspective? In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, priest, neuroscientist, and Senior Ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, to take on these difficult questions head-on. We explore: If you’ve ever wondered how to think clearly and compassionately a
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When Compassion and Justice Must Meet
This case is heartbreaking, and it forces us to wrestle with difficult but necessary truths.
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Risks & Realities of Surrogacy: An Anti Perspective with Kallie Fell: The Birth Lounge Podcast
Kallie Fell discussed concerns about surrogacy on The Birth Lounge Podcast, highlighting issues such as exploitation, commodification, and the separation of biological, gestational, and social motherhood. The conversation also covered surrogate health risks, potential long-term impacts on children conceived through IVF, and the complex legal challenges related to contracts, autonomy, and representation.
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Infertility in the Age of IVF: Can Life Still Be Fruitful? with Leigh Snead
In an age of IVF, embryo selection, and a rapidly expanding fertility industry, couples facing infertility are often given a clear message: if you want a child badly enough, technology can make it happen. But what if that’s not the whole story? What if infertility is not just a medical condition to be solved but a profound personal, relational, and even spiritual trial? And what if a life without biological children can still be deeply meaningful and truly fruitful? In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with Leigh Snead, author of Infertile but Fruitful, fellow with the Catholic Associ
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The False “Source of Life”: Nazi Surrogacy and Eugenics
Lebensborn is a German word meaning “the source of life.” Understood literally, it sounds wonderful. Given its origins in the German Third Reich, however, its meaning is somewhat more ambiguous. Like in all totalitarian systems, name and content are often very different. In the Soviet Union, ... The post The False “Source of Life”: Nazi Surrogacy and Eugenics appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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An American Obsession
By Judie Brown Recent headlines inform the electorate that wholesale killing is so deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche that on any particular day the most horrific of crimes against human dignity go unacknowledged. In New Mexico, preborn children are being slaughtered up to 34 weeks gestational age. The state has one of the most… Read More » An American Obsession The post An American Obsession appeared first on ALL .
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Prioritise safety first over “deeply flawed” concept of choice, say British public
Public opposes Assisted Dying bill if it puts the vulnerable at risk—even if it enables ‘choice.’ 86% support specific protections for those with Down syndrome, autism, and learning disabilities. 9-in-10 over-75s say doctors should be banned from raising the subject of death with patients. Voters want MPs and Peers who are debating the assisted […] The post Prioritise safety first over “deeply flawed” concept of choice, say British public appeared first on Care Not Killing .
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Appendix D: Faith-Based Ministries Discuss how to Further Pro-Life Mission
Prolife leaders from across the country gathered this week to discuss how faithbased ministries are helping to cultivate a society that promotes human dignity and how others can advance the cause. The Leading with Love Conference at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C., was s... The post Appendix D: Faith-Based Ministries Discuss how to Further Pro-Life Mission appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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Alysa Liu’s Surrogacy Story Ended in Gold — But Most Don’t Get That Lucky
For figure skater Alysa Liu, the Milan Olympics meant something special: her return to the world’s greatest stage after her retirement four years ago at the age of 16. And return Liu did, winning two gold medals and breaking the United States’ drought in women’s figure skating. But why did she retire in the first place? Alysa Liu’s father, Arthur ... Read More The post Alysa Liu’s Surrogacy Story Ended in Gold — But Most Don’t Get That Lucky appeared first on Students for Life of America .
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AI for the Good: Productivity in Personhood
Over 10,000 young women in five Georgia counties are reached monthly with a pro-life message through digital ads that Georgia Right to Life helps fund.[1] Source
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Is AI a Threat to Personhood?
How should a Christian think about AI and Personhood? The futuristic vision of the tech world is already conjuring up personhood for man-made think-bots, all the while preborn babies are scarcely afforded the same. This is not an exaggeration by any means. Source
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Designer Babies: When IVF Becomes Human Design with Dr. Tara Sander Lee
IVF was introduced as a way to address infertility, even though it is fraught with ethical problems. But today, it increasingly involves grading embryos, screening genetic traits, and deciding which embryos are chosen. Are we entering an era where reproduction becomes human design? In this episode, Harvard-trained biochemist Tara Sander Lee, Ph.D., explains how modern IVF increasingly involves eugenic practices. We examine: As IVF expands beyond infertility “treatment” and into optimization, urgent questions emerge about human dignity, disability, and the moral limits of reproductive technolog
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Why the Death Penalty is Not Consistent with a Pro-Life Worldview
Hawkins argues that opposition to abortion should be grounded in a broader commitment to the value of human life. She applies that reasoning to capital punishment and explains why she sees the death penalty as inconsistent with her pro-life worldview.
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Stem Cell Ethics: What’s Moral, What’s Not, and Why It Matters
Stem cell ethics emphasize the importance of preserving and protecting human life from the moment of creation until natural death, and it firmly opposes any research that results in the destruction of human embryos. This aligns with Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life. Stem cells – special cells that are found in nearly… The post Stem Cell Ethics: What’s Moral, What’s Not, and Why It Matters appeared first on Human Life International .
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Commodification of Human Life: Germany’s Embryo Protection Act Under Political Pressure
Germany's Embryo Protection Act is facing significant political pressure due to new legislative proposals that seek to legalize surrogacy and egg donation. These changes raise concerns about the commercialization of human life, the exploitation of women's bodies, and the right of every child to know their genetic identity.
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Why Protestants Need a Theology of the Body
Andersen and Katelyn Walls Shelton argue that Protestant Christians need a more developed theology of the body for questions involving IVF, surrogacy and fertility. They connect reproductive ethics to a pro-life understanding of embodiment, marriage and the creation of human life.
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Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be
In July 1997, a married couple in Oldenburg, Germany discovered in the twentieth week of the wife’s pregnancy that the child the woman was carrying had Down syndrome. The woman was in her twenty-fifth week of pregnancy when she underwent a saline abortion. In order to truly understand this pe... The post Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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The Question Beneath the Question
Hawkins examines underlying assumptions that shape debates within the pro-life movement about law, responsibility and strategy. She urges advocates to focus on protecting unborn children while taking seriously the real circumstances surrounding women and abortion.
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What Happens After Killing Is Legalized: Inside Canada’s Euthanasia Experiment and Beyond with Alex Schadenberg
What happens after killing is legalized? In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, to examine what Canada’s euthanasia regime reveals about medicine, consent, and human dignity. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are often framed as compassion about choice, autonomy, and relief from suffering. But as Canada’s MAiD system shows, once killing becomes legal, safeguards collapse, definitions expand, and the most vulnerable people are placed at risk. In this conversation, we discuss: This is a difficult conversation,
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Chinese Billionaires Create American Mega-Families through Unregulated IVF and Surrogacy
What comes to mind when you hear the words IVF and surrogacy? For many, these terms bring to mind images of couples who have longed for children and turned to assisted reproductive technology (ART) for assistance. These technologies tend to be presented as compassionate solutions, in order to fulfill a desire that is profoundly human. Source
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Rethinking Surrogacy: Philosophical, Psychological, & Biomedical Insights Conference
The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network is hosting an online conference titled 'Rethinking Surrogacy: Philosophical, Psychological, & Biomedical Insights' on February 28, 2026. The event will feature five key presentations exploring the bonds between mother and fetus, intrauterine memory, experiences of women involved, and biomedical consequences for surrogate mothers, egg donors, and newborns.
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The Immorality of Creating Children through IVF
Reproductive rights advocates reacted with anger and indignance upon hearing the February 16, 2024, Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through in vitro fertilization are children.1 They rightly understood that a law’s affirmation that preborn babies are human children could not only change the IVF practices of US fertility clinics but might also lead […] The post The Immorality of Creating Children through IVF appeared first on Celebrate Life Magazine .
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Meghan Trainor, Celebrity Surrogacy, and the Ethics of Outsourcing Parenthood
Meghan Trainor recently announced the birth of her newest child through surrogacy, a practice increasingly normalized by wealthy and influential figures. The Center for Bioethics & Culture highlights concerns about the ethical implications of surrogacy, emphasizing the child's perspective and the separation of biological and gestational parentage inherent in the process.
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The Case of the Embryo Mix-Up
Andersen examines an IVF embryo mix-up as evidence of legal and ethical problems created by separating conception, gestation and parenthood. She argues that reproductive technology policy should take the identity and interests of embryos and resulting children more seriously.
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From Washington, D.C. to the front lines of reproductive policy, the truth is coming into focus.
Following recent conversations on Capitol Hill about the growing harms of the fertility industry, Representatives today issued a press release expressing support for the SAFE KIDS Act—legislation previously introduced by Sen. Rick Scott to protect children from exploitation within the commercial fertility and surrogacy industry, including abuses tied to foreign adversaries. This moment underscores what the Center for Bioethics […] The post From Washington, D.C. to the front lines of reproductive policy, the truth is coming into focus. appeared first on The Center for Bioethics & Culture Networ
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