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Scroll to view all articles Erika Bachiochi on: Why Can't (and Shouldn't) a Woman Be More Like a Man By John Grondelski:  Pro-lifers in Washington for the March for Life had an opportunity to hear Erika Bachiochi speak about her latest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision ... Bachiochi’s work provides valuable intellectual foundations for recovering a lost current in feminist thought, one that recognizes that women and their children are not competitors and certainly not enemies. CLICK HERE TO READ Political Pretense By W. Ross Blackburn:  Predictably, passage in the House of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act last month caused fits in the abortion culture. ... [T]he Act could have a “detrimental” effect, for it shows us that what we call abortion and what we call infanticide are effectively the same. It should bother us that a baby can receive intensive care in one wing of a hospital, while a baby of the same age can be dismembered in another wing. This is precisely the kind of mental turbulence that pro-abortionists want to bury. And precisely the kind we need to confront. CLICK HERE TO READ Does Effective and Ethical Stem Cell Therapy Exist? By Grace Emily Stark (Special access to the article from the current issue of Human Life Review):  [D]espite the insistence of Fox, Reeve, and others in the late 1990s and early 2000s that embryonic stem cells would pave the way for an untold number of cures (if only we would keep religion out of it) today, adult stem cell therapy research leads the way, both in terms of the sheer volume of research conducted and in promising results for stem cell-based therapeutics. However, as we will discuss, even ostensibly ethical adult stem cell therapy research faces moral conundrums. CLICK HERE TO READ State Constitutions and Abortion Rights By Edward Mechmann:  The dominant theory for interpreting the U.S. Constitution, “living constitutionalism,” has been challenged in recent years by a competing theory—”originalism.” We have seen this at confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justices, and in numerous recent decisions, including Dobbs. That debate is now spreading to the states. ... If state high courts follow originalism, they will hold in virtually every state that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. CLICK HERE TO READ The Foolishness of the Cross By Rev. Victor Lee Austin: In the first chapter of his first epistle to the Corinthians, Saint Paul writes: “The preaching of the cross is to them that [are] perish[ing], foolishness; but unto us which are [being] saved, it is the power of God.” ... Where in our weakness is the power of God hidden? One place the foolishness of the cross can be hidden is in the foolishness of being pro-life. CLICK HERE TO READ Exequies and Lamentations: The Waste Land Now By Edward Short: Some years back, some of my readers might remember, an advertisement for corn whisky ran on billboards across the country: “Old Grand-Dad—Over a Hundred Years Old and Still in the Bars Every Night.” Something of the same might be said about T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922). Its centennial has come and gone but still we can be struck by passages in the poem that speak to our own age with an uncanny prescience. CLICK HERE TO READ Read or download the newest issue of the Human Life Review!  CLICK HERE For a subscription to the Human Life Review, the intellectual backbone of the pro-life movement, CLICK HERE Sign up to receive the newsletter Current Issue Online!

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