Abortion & IVF

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Frequenting the Frontlines of Life

Jacob Adams

It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday…

The Theology of Roe

Matthew Schmitz

A controversial abortion case reaches the Supreme Court, and men in black robes impose their religious views…

Is Trump Playing the Long Game on Abortion?

Carmel Richardson

When news broke last week that the Trump administration had quietly restored federal Planned Parenthood funding, which…

Can Liberals Be Pronatalists?

Darel E. Paul

Last year the United Nations Population Division predicted that global population will peak in approximately sixty years,…

Two Pro-Life Goals for 2026

Patrick T. Brown

The second Trump administration has been marked by wins on what we might dub “cultural” conservatism—ending DEI…

When No-Fault Divorce Turns Children into Commodities

Carl R. Trueman

I anticipate that the most controversial part of my forthcoming book, The Desecration of Man, will be…

The Wealthy Chinese Buying Babies and American Citizenship

Emma Waters

"In the foreseeable future, China and the U.S. will be the two strongest countries in the world.…

The Inkling Who Fought Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Earlier this autumn, I had the opportunity to visit Oxford the day before I delivered two lectures…

The Surrogacy Exploitation Crisis

Emma Waters

“It’s horrific, it’s disturbing, it’s damaging emotionally,” said Kayla Elliot, a young woman now fighting for custody…

Children Are Gifts, Not Products

Juliana Sweeny

In late September, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University announced a breakthrough that could reshape the…

Trump’s IVF Policy Could Be Worse, But It’s Still Bad 

Ryan T. Anderson

The Trump administration’s IVF policy unveiled on Thursday is perhaps the least bad that we could have…

Expanded Abortion Pill Access Puts Death in Women’s Hands

Carmel Richardson

Can Trump be trusted on abortion?” I wrote in these pages last fall. One year later, the…

Undermining the Church’s Public Witness

Daniel Lipinski

Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki recently wrote in these pages that the Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to grant…

Zombie Bioethics

Aaron Kheriaty

A recent article in MIT Technology Review carries the strange ­title, “Ethically sourced ‘spare’ human bodies could…

How Sen. Durbin Shifted on Abortion

Mary Kate Zander

On January 17, 1982, a young and not-yet-elected Richard J. Durbin served as the master of ceremonies…