Abortion & IVF

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Pro-Life Imperative

William Doino Jr.

In 1973, after the Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade decision, the New York Times expressed…

Roe’s Missing Stories

Eve Tushnet

Roe, the new play from Lisa Loomer about the woman at the heart of the 1973 Supreme…

An Open Letter to My Liberal Friends

Solveig Lucia Gold

To my liberal friends, on the day after the Women’s March: I woke up this morning with…

Nat Hentoff, Great Defender of Human Life

Wesley J. Smith

The late, great Nat Hentoff befriended me during the 1990s, I don’t remember exactly when. Having read…

Bioethics in 2017

Wesley J. Smith

Aside from Donald Trump’s call to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and Hillary Clinton’s promise to repeal the…

Advent in the Deathworks

R. J. Snell

Ryszard Legutko observes in The Demon in Democracy that the cultured despisers of religion will not rest…

Chaplains of Death

R. R. Reno

It’s an appalling document. In a pastoral letter, ten Catholic Bishops of the Canadian Atlantic Episcopal Assembly…

A Culture of Life in the Walking Dead

Abigail Rine Favale

Since its earliest seasons, AMC’s zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead has depicted a God-widowed world. Although…

“Death Control” and the Bioethics Peril

Wesley J. Smith

Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage…

The Two Minds of Progressivism

David Azerrad

One of the great impediments to understanding the progressive ideology of our age is the fact that…

NFP Is Not Always “Marriage-Building”

Audrey Pollnow

When I was engaged, a friend asked whether I planned to use contraception. I explained that I…

Religious and Pro-Life Conscience Unwelcome in Healthcare

Wesley J. Smith

Healthcare is quickly becoming about much more than the provision and reception of medical treatment. To a…

A Subjective Definition of “Death” Would Unleash Great Evil

Wesley J. Smith

Most people understand the word “death” to mean the end of biological life or, as Merriam-Webster defines…

Trump Is No Pro-Lifer

Robert P. George

When candidates for high office are faking it in order to persuade a party’s base that, appearances…

Conservative Populism is Divided Against Itself

Pete Spiliakos

Conservative populism can’t catch a break. The party’s elites have a stranglehold on policy. As Reihan Salam…