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What exactly is a pro-life journal? This is more than a practical question for our editors; it bears crucially on our shared identity as prolifers, the strategies used to convince others about the inherent dignity of human life and the dire need for protections, and the unity of our efforts. ... The post About this Issue: Spring 2026 appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Sadly, death by abortion has always been around. In the ancient world, abortion was prevalent enough that the Hippocratic Oath had to be composed and administered to guide medical doctors away from taking innocent, preborn human lives. In our time, abortion has been capitalized, commercialize... The post ABORTION, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICS appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →The Human Life Review has a long-standing interest in identifying and encouraging pro-human influences in our culture. I think of them as signs that in the long run, reality comes through. To be anti-abortion or anti-euthanasia, for instance, one has to put ideology ahead of reality. What I m... The post Robots and Clones and Humans appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →A Colorado teen died after undergoing an abortion through Planned Parenthood, though the media and local officials have tried to bury the story. “Eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello died after undergoing an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2025,” Live Action reported... The post Colorado Teen Dies From Planned Parenthood Abortion. Media Is Mum appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Was Joe Biden insufficiently pro-abortion? That would seem to be Carlos Lozado’s conclusion about the former president. Writing in the New York Times last week, he suggests Democrats lost the presidency in 2024 because they were stuck with Biden, who was not pro-abortion enough. Apparently i... The post Columnist Claims Biden Wasn’t Pro-Abortion Enough appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →A Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering “Just In Case Abortion Pills,” to women who aren’t even pregnant. These pills, currently offered in two states, Washington and Hawaii, are stocked up before pregnancy begins as an “advanced provision” in the event that an unwanted pregnancy oc... The post Planned Parenthood Offers ‘Just In Case Abortion Pills’ appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →All universities in Colorado with a student health center will be required to hand out dangerous abortion drugs to college students or help them obtain them from an outside source under a new law. House Bill 26-1335, signed by Democratic Governor Jared Polis on May 28, orders every university... The post Colleges Must Hand Out Abortion Drugs To Students Under New Colorado Law appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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 →While the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision stopped activist federal judges from blocking pro-life laws, it could not stop state judges from doing the same. In many states, pro-life leaders and legislators are passing protections for innocent preborn c... The post Activist Judges Are Blocking Pro-Life Laws appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →We begin our 52nd year of publishing with timely and important articles from our two new editors, Mary Rose Somarriba and Christopher M. Reilly. In “DIY Abortion Returns: From Back Alleys to Bathrooms,” Somarriba makes the chilling case that the easy availability of “medication abortion” has brought... The post ABOUT THIS ISSUE (Winter 2026) appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Uruguay recently became the first country in Latin America to legalize euthanasia. Its General Assembly, the national legislature, approved legislation in October 2025 to allow euthanizing persons over 18 with a chronic, irreversible, and incurable disease that causes “unbearable suffering.” Over at... The post An Interview with Prof. Miguel Pastorino appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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 →This reflection was originally posted on October 21, 2024. ___________________________________________________ Sometimes it is difficult to know how to pray, and we are helped by the words of others. The following is a prayer for the vulnerable, particularly the unborn, taken from Psalm 35. ... The post A Prayer for the Vulnerable appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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 →Introduction Good afternoon! I am so glad to be here with you all today. It is a special joy to be back on this campus, which was my professional home up until about a year ago, when the March for Life came calling. Thank you to my long-time friend Elizabeth Kirk and the Center for Law and th... The post Leading with Love appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all about me is a culture th... The post The Logic of Abortion appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →I have posed the question of whether AI is pro-life to multiple people, and the responses are fascinating but scattered. Some hopped onto their computer or cell phone to query AI applications directly, as if AI models can provide authentic, personal testimony. This approach is similar to a cr... The post Is AI Pro-Life? appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Pro-life advocates have spent years combatting the rising surge of chemical abortion drugs, which now make up over 60% of abortions in the United States. Admirable efforts have been made to expose the dangers of the pill, as well as the consequences that mail-order abortion is enabling nation... The post State Litigation Seeks to Curb Mail-Order Abortion appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →A Georgia woman who was about 22 or 23 weeks pregnant ordered abortion drugs by mail, which are only authorized for use up to about 10 weeks, and after taking the drugs, her baby was delivered alive but died about an hour later due to damage from the drugs. Local law enforcement arrested the mother on murder and drug charges, but the legal landscape is complicated by Georgia laws that protect mothers from prosecution for harm to their unborn children, and the federal government has not enforced the Comstock Act, which bans mailing abortion drugs, contributing to ongoing risks from mail-order abortion pills.
Read →In the past several weeks, researchers have published papers that claim to show dire economic consequences when states restrict abortion. Abortion supporters are hoping that pro-lifers can be swayed by focusing on economics and the financial consequences of prohibiting abortion. Pro-life stat... The post Abortion Supporters Focus On Economics, Not Morality appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →For decades, the most potent image deployed in favor of legalized abortion has been the coat hanger. The message has always been blunt: If abortion is not provided by licensed physicians using sanitized instruments, women will resort to desperate and dangerous methods on their own. The image ... The post DIY Abortion Returns: From Back Alleys to Bathrooms appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →The abortionist Kermit Gosnell died in Pennsylvania at age 85. Although his death occurred March 1, it was not made public until March 23. Gosnell was serving three life terms without possibility of parole for his involvement in the post-birth deaths of three babies. He was also convicted of third-d... The post Kermit Gosnell, Prolific Abortionist, Dies at 85 appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →More than half of Americans support abortion in all or most cases, according to recent polling by Pew Research Center. The number has remained fairly stable throughout the years, including through the overturning of Roe v. Wade, indicating that legal shifts can’t bypass the hard work of chang... The post Majority of Americans Support Abortion, Pew Finds. Many Remain Persuadable appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Christians can support the intentional destruction of innocent preborn babies in the womb—at least that is what the Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate candidate in Texas thinks. State representative James Talarico recently defeated congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate primary. Talar... The post Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico Wants Christians To Support Abortion appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →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 .
Read →[John Mize is CEO of Americans United for Life. The following originally appeared August 21, 2025, at National Review Online; reprinted with permission.] In a matter of minutes, anyone can order abortion drugs online and have them shipped to states with even the most stringent prolife protect... The post Appendix C: “Choice” Cannot Coexist with Abortion Coercion appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Thanks to funding cuts, Planned Parenthood isn’t doing so well financially. Locations across the country are hoping that offering new and seemingly inoffensive procedures will help fill the gaps. Planned Parenthood of Michigan recently announced that it will be offering vasectomies to male customers... The post Struggling Financially, Planned Parenthood Now Offers Vasectomies and Botox appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →[Clarke D. Forsythe is senior counsel at Americans United for Life. The following article was originally published on September 22, 2025, by National Review Online. Copyright 2025 by National Review. Reprinted by permission.] Proposals to prosecute women for abortion are a fringe notion that ... The post Appendix B: The Wrong Tool for Protecting Women from Abortion appeared first on The Human Life Review .
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