New Insights from the Human Life Review January 2, 2025

 

Scroll to view all articles Jesus Was a Fetus By Diane Moriarty Jesus comforts those dying in pain, something he knew a great deal about. Surely Jesus is with the bits of jelly, the six-week heartbeats, the thirteen week-ers, the ones who are kicking, and all the rest who are electively rejected—something else he knew a great deal about. CLICK TO READ Planned Parenthood Sold 6-Month Aborted Fetuses to University of California San Diego By Matt Lamb Planned Parenthood provided aborted fetuses to the University of California San Diego under a contract recently obtained by the Center for Medical Progress. ... The university wanted 2,500 babies for experimentation.  CLICK TO READ John Smeaton and the Truth of the Sanctity of Life From the 50th Anniversary Summer/Fall Issue of the Human Life Review By Edward Short  John Smeaton [is] another prolifer eminently worthy of celebration, who for many years led the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and now heads up the Voice of the Family, which is keeping the pro-life cause alive not just in the United Kingdom but Europe as well. CLICK TO READ God Adopts Little Girls Too By Tara Jernigan  Jesus seems to have knowingly emptied himself of the perfect paternity to take on a human father and inherit our sin and brokenness. ... We are neither slaves, who could not inherit under Roman law, nor free men, who could. We are neither male heirs nor females who were denied inheritance, but “all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” CLICK TO READ Visitation and Power By Fr. David Poecking  The Visitation poignantly illustrates the humanity of two boys, who will be named John and Jesus. By leaping for joy, John begins to express his own character and calling as the forerunner of Jesus. And because Jesus in his mother’s womb is recognizable as “Lord,” his identity is also affirmed. CLICK TO READ The False Promises of In Vitro Fertilization By Jacqueline O'Hara  In the past few months since the Alabama Supreme Court IVF decision that sparked national controversy, many concerned Americans have pointed to the disturbing lack of regulation on the IVF industry. ... The process of selecting a successful embryo often involves uncomfortably eugenic selections of the best traits possible, as if the child were a Build-A-Bear rather than a human soul with inherent dignity. ... Worst of all, the process involves freezing or discarding millions of embryos, each a distinct human soul, every single year. CLICK TO READ What a Web We Weave By Brian Caulfield  I remember visiting my future wife in her Manhattan office back in the pre-Y2K dark ages, when style guides instructed us to capitalize the words Internet and Website. Working for a tech startup that recruited programmers for other tech startups that were busy adding two more spaces to all dates online in preparation for the year 2000, she was riding the wave of the 1990s boom, with an office high above Times Square and a salary some degrees above mine. As a reporter for Catholic New York newspaper, I knew something about the Internet, but preferred using the newsroom’s extensive hard-copy files and reference books to research and fact check my stories. CLICK TO READ Sign up to receive the newsletter 50th Anniversary Summer/Fall Issue Online! Human Life Foundation | 271 Madison Avenue Room 1005 | New York, NY 10016 US