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A decade ago, IVF experts spoke out against the common practice of transferring multiple embryos to the uterus, published in the New York Times. The multiple-birth method has been normalized by clinics—hoping to enhance pregnancy rates to attract patients—but experts voiced concerns about a l...
Read →Elizabeth, a young woman in Oklahoma in 1985, chose to have an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic, reflecting on the ease of access to abortion at the time and her lack of consideration for alternatives. Sheila Harper, another woman who had an abortion at 19, experienced long-term emotional trauma and later founded a ministry to help others recover from abortion, emphasizing that abortion can have deep biological and psychological effects on women.
Read →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 .
Read →In our college biology class, one of our assignments was to follow the development of the chicken from its first day until it hatched on day 21. The chicken embryo develops from a single cell to a fully formed chick over three weeks of incubation at a temperature of approximately 99.5 F. The ... The post Choosing Choice appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Wherever the logic of abortion spreads, institutions grow corrupt as they try to conceal the humanity of the unborn. In May of 2026, Togitani Hinami had her first birthday. One year prior, she was born into a world her mother was already leaving. The day of Hinami’s birth was the day she and her m... The post Lawfare Against the Innocent appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →The phrase calling abortion a decision “between a woman and her doctor” was always odd. It conjured a discussion between the pregnant female and her physician about her pregnancy, the factors leading her to consider abortion, an analysis of those factors plus alternatives (adoption? parenting... The post Mailed Abortion Pills, Part 2: Physical Perils and Mental Traumas appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Jesse and Ashley Ridgway made national news recently because of their decision to end the life of their unborn child. The child had been diagnosed in utero with Trisomy 21, known to most Americans as Down Syndrome. For the Ridgways, Down Syndrome was, it seems, not compatible with their other... The post The Extermination of Baby Ridgway appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →The choice to abort a baby is often driven by poverty and isolation. One study states, “Sixty percent [of women who aborted their children] reported they would have preferred to give birth if they had received more support from others or had more financial security.1” Another study found that... The post How the Effective Charity Movement Can Supercharge the Pro-Life Cause appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Lisa Rose, a graduate of UCLA, is the president and founder of Live Action, a non-profit organization that supports life and is known for its media advocacy and undercover investigations. She recounts an incident that took place while she was a student at UCLA that tells us, in a striking way, h... The post Then and Now: Filling in the Blanks appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Rosalie Markezich loved working with children at her daycare job.1,2 According to documents uploaded by Louisiana Right to Life, she looked at the positive result of her pregnancy test and smiled. However, she was apprehensive about her boyfriend’s reaction. Should she tell him? “I decided he... The post Mailed Abortion Pills and Victimization: Part 1—Abusers appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Recently, some prominent cultural figures have bucked a longstanding American tradition of vilifying people with different political views. When Republicans and Democrats come together to talk to one another as human beings, they often emphasize shared humanity over divisive politics. But I t... The post Bill Maher: Why Exclude the Unborn from Shared Humanity? appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →I recently read news about a British woman named Wendy Duffy, who died in April at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. Duffy’s son, Marcus, passed away some four years ago in a freak accident at their home. Since then, Duffy said, she has wanted to join him in death. She attempted suic... The post Will to Live, Will to Life appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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 →Teens are buying abortion drugs online without their parents’ knowledge, a new study admits. Written by pro-abortion Aid Access founder Rebecca Gomperts and two scholars, the study looks at “requests made to a high-volume online medication abortion telemedicine service.” They found that pro-l... The post Teens Are Buying Abortion Drugs Online, Underscoring Need For Restrictions appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Rental Family, a Hollywood movie released in late 2025 and streaming this spring on Hulu, raises universal questions about truth, faith, love, life, death, and belonging. Despite some flaws, the pro-life, pro-family message of the film stands out. The plot of the movie, ostensibly about Japan, cen... The post The Fiction of Disposable Relationships appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →In his encyclopedic study of the abortion issue, Abortion, the Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (1970), American philosopher Germain Grisez makes an important point that warrants further attention. He states that: “since new human individuals develop from the union of sperm and ovum, it wou... The post The Transmission of Life appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →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 .
Read →Known as a brave, engaging, envelope-pushing, all-American California girl, Lila Rose has for years attacked the belly of the abortion beast, never wavering and often emerging stronger for the next battle. Yet her very public image is only part of the story that is revealed in her deeply refl... The post On the Fifth Anniversary of Fighting for Life: The Bloom of Lila Rose appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →On February 6, 2026, New York governor Kathy Hochul signed her state’s Medical Aid in Dying Act into law. It was an “emotional decision,” the governor allowed. “Ultimately, though,” she concluded, “I’m proud that I gave people the choice when life gets really hard that they don’t have to prol... The post Is It Right to Die? appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →For the 53rd time, those who are dedicated to the proposition that all human life is sacred marched this past January 23 in order to bring that message to the world. Has the world been listening? The rate of abortion in the United States, given the convenience of abortion pills mifepristone a... The post The March for Life and the Meaning of Life appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →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 .
Read →Since 2023, a Colorado law has banned medical providers and organizations in the state from offering women abortion pill reversal, which reverses the effects of dangerous chemical abortion drugs if women change their minds after taking them. Now a federal judge has ruled that the law was unco... The post Judge Rejects Colorado’s Abortion Pill Reversal Ban appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Well Dobbs is sure turning out to be a pro-life bust. Or is it? Since the 2022 Dobbs decision, which didn’t outlaw abortion but simply put its legality back in the hands of the States, voters in California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont have passed amendments to enshrine abortion in their const... The post With Fresh Eyes appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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