Abortion & IVF
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Looking Down syndrome in the Face
Before I met my son Max, I’d never spent much time with anyone who has Down syndrome.…
The Link Between Contraception and Abortion
I call the link between contraception and abortion an unpleasant fact, not only because both are unpleasant…
Why the Pro-Life Movement Will Live Long, and Prosper
We’re asked today to reflect on the future of the pro-life movement in an increasingly secular age.…
Paul VI in 2018
Paul VI’s landmark encyclical on birth control, Humanae Vitae, turns fifty this year. It was controversial before…
Joseph Fletcher’s Dark Dreams Becoming Our Reality
Joseph Fletcher (1905–1991) was one the most influential philosophers and bioethicists of the twentieth century. His advocacy…
The Roy Moore Postmortem
When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore, the pro-life cause took a bullet but dodged a grenade. There…
What’s Changed Since Humanae Vitae?
Throughout this academic year, Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures, billed as the…
A Cool Cardinal
Blase Cupich wants Catholics to grow up. Cardinal archbishop of a city famous for the husky, brawling…
A Right to the Baby We Want
Whenever I write about the underregulated multi-billion-dollar infertility industry, I receive anguished emails from women who can’t…
Shunning the Disabled
Last October, our family realized that we were not welcome in the French Republic. I had always…
Learning From Charlie Gard
While sitting on hospital medical-ethics committees, I have sometimes worried that physicians are tempted, against the wishes…
Putting Infants “Down Like Dogs”
The Charlie Gard tragedy has renewed public advocacy for legalizing infanticide. Writing in the New York Times…
Je suis Charlie, Once More
Less than one year old and stricken with a rare degenerative disease, Charlie Gard is on life…
Whose Baby Is Charlie Gard, Anyway?
“The time has come for your baby to die,” a doctor told the grieving parents of a…
What’s Love Got to Do with Transhumanism?
Nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you can save that can’t be saved.…
