Abortion & IVF

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Our Outdated Debates

Jessica Keating

Could the intensity of America’s abortion debate be like the last burst of light from a dying…

Three Culture of Death Tipping Points

Wesley J. Smith

Pope John Paul II once famously described Western society as a “culture of death.” But what does…

The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling

Leah Libresco Sargeant

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

Matthew Schmitz

Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices…

Time for a “Populist” Bioethics Commission

Wesley J. Smith

Donald Trump has been president for less than five months, but his plate is already full: Iran,…

Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!

Wesley J. Smith

Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But that may…

Après Gorsuch le Deluge

George Weigel

Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater?…

Pro-Life, Pro-Truth

Alexi Sargeant

It is an exciting time to be pro-life. The political situation, all the way up to the…

What I Saw and Heard at the March for Life

Kevin Gallagher

Every year it feels a bit like a carnival. It shouldn’t, when you consider what the March…

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…