New Insights from the Human Life Review June 6, 2025

 

Scroll to view all articles Washington Post Tries and Fails to Debunk Study on Mifepristone Dangers By Jacqueline O'Hara The paper downplays the study’s finding that 5.68% of women experienced “other abortion-specific complications” because these were “vague.” However, [EPPC spokesman Hunter Estes] told the Post that these included complications that sound not only specific, but more serious than the paper seems to want to admit: damage to women’s internal organs from the abortion, fetal tissue left inside the woman’s uterus, kidney failure, and life-threatening mental health diagnoses. CLICK TO READ How the Church Can Be the Village By Avery West American motherhood is broken, but marriage and babies aren’t the problem. Fewer women are having babies and Americans are more isolated than ever, so new mothers are often on their own. ... One way the Church can advocate for a culture of life is by offering isolated new mothers the resources and care and friendship of a “village.” CLICK TO READ SAVE THE DATE! The 22nd Annual Great Defender of Life Dinner will be Friday, November 7 Honoring Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and saluting Anne Conlon, Editor of the Human Life Review, who retires at the end of this year. CLICK TO LEARN MORE Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood  By John Grondelski  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled May 11 (U.S. Mother’s Day) that motherhood by surrogacy trumps motherhood by genetics in terms of “legal parentage.” ... Based on the facts reported, the most egregious aspect of the Court’s ruling appears to be its denigration of biological relationship as a factor – much less a decisive factor – in a parental relationship. CLICK TO READ Reflection for Pentecost  By Rev. George G. Brooks  There are two examples from my personal acquaintance that renewed in me a proper sense of sin. The first is a young woman who got pregnant while she was in high school. ... The second example is a police detective, the head of his division, who was in charge of investigating the brutal murder late one night of a young woman in his town as she was walking home. CLICK TO READ The Sermon on the Mount By Fr. Francis Canavan, SJ  Our Lord does not command us to let people walk over us whenever they want. But we’ll be easier to live with and we’ll contribute more to civilization if our first impulse is to turn the other cheek rather than to let someone have it between the eyes. We may even say that we’ll have a civilization worth defending only if it has people in it who are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount to heart. CLICK TO READ The Mystical Stock Fund of Philomena Colaianni By Peter Pavia  What captured my attention as I leafed through this edition [of the New York Post] wasn’t the cheesecake snapshots or the racing column they still run, but a near inscrutable insert, which listed names and last known addresses associated with unclaimed financial assets and the institutions that held them. CLICK TO READ Sign up to receive the newsletter Winter 2025 Issue Online!

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