Abortion & IVF
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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.…
Our Outdated Debates
Could the intensity of America’s abortion debate be like the last burst of light from a dying…
Three Culture of Death Tipping Points
Pope John Paul II once famously described Western society as a “culture of death.” But what does…
The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling
Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they’re California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers…
What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs
Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices…
Time for a “Populist” Bioethics Commission
Donald Trump has been president for less than five months, but his plate is already full: Iran,…
