life issues

A private matter between a woman and her vending machine?

Mary Rice Hasson | 15 February 2012 |

tags: morning after pill, universities

Developments on a university campus suggest it is time for the Supreme Court to update its famous definition of abortion.

Fudging the figures on contraception

Michael Cook | 14 February 2012 |

tags: contraception, Obama, statistics

The White House says 98% of Catholic women have used contraceptives. Its own statistics do not support this.

Unnatural Selection

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 February 2012 |

tags: books, sex selective abortion

A book by a pro-choice feminist faces up to an unintended consequence of the West's fertility war.

Lost in Transition II: An accurate picture of youth?

Thomas Lickona | 02 February 2012 |

tags: books, emerging adults, moral relativism

We cannot stake too much on one study of young adult moral attitudes.

Gendercide: when choice becomes an issue

Margaret Somerville | 30 January 2012 |

tags: abortions, gendercide

Indignation over sex-selection shows that abortion is not just a private matter.

Let’s make the UN Secretary-General keep his word

Vincenzina Santoro | 27 January 2012 |

tags: abortions, United Nations

The United Nations must be the "defender of the defenceless", says Ban Ki-moon. Why not begin with the unborn?

Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion

Angela Franks | 17 January 2012 |

tags: books, eugenics, population control, Public Discourse

A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.

The New Year should begin with ideas for saving lives, not for killing them

David Alton | 05 January 2012 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, UK

A media frenzy has erupted in the UK over a hopelessly biased report on assisted suicide.

Just don’t smash it, Dave

Joanna Bogle | 20 December 2011 |

tags: Christmas, David Cameron, UK

The British PM defends Christianity but it's deeds that matter in the end, not words.

An elephant in the press room

Tracey S. O'Donnell | 16 December 2011 |

tags: abortion-mental health link, media neglect

Why did leading media fail to point out the real news in a report on abortion and mental health?

Death on wheels

Paul Russell | 09 December 2011 |

tags: euthanasia, Netherlands

A Dutch MP thinks mobile euthanasia units are worth considering.

A hospice in the womb

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 December 2011 |

tags: abortion, perinatal hospice, prenatal testing

When prenatal diagnosis brings bad news about their child, parents deserve a real choice of paths. Happily, there is a beautiful option available.

Heads in the sand over AIDS

Carolyn Moynihan | 02 December 2011 |

tags: Africa, birth control, HIVAIDS

How many more lives, how many billions of dollars, will be sacrificed to western sexual ideology?

Are we sleepwalking through the great infanticide?

Lea Singh | 29 November 2011 |

tags: abortion, infanticide

Staff from a horrific abortion clinic have pleaded guilty to murder. What about the rest of the industry?

Abortion and mental health: science vs politics

Priscilla K. Coleman | 23 November 2011 |

tags: abortion-mental health link, scientific research

Publication in a leading psychiatry journal did not prevent a barrage of criticism for the author of a study showing the mental health risks of abortion.

Blithely down the slippery slope

Barbara Kay | 17 November 2011 |

tags: Canada, euthanasia

The Royal Society of Canada recommends legalising euthanasia.

In Italy, gain and loss in the struggle for life

Josephine Quintavalle | 09 November 2011 |

tags: abortion tourism, conscientious objection, pregnancy help centers

The abortion rate has halved in 15 years, but there is a disturbing new trend.

Another death in the family

Michael Cook | 08 November 2011 |

tags: euthanasia, Norway, UK

Did a famous London physician euthanase two of the crowned heads of Europe?

Organ donation: crossing the line

Nancy Valko | 06 October 2011 |

tags: donation after cardiac death, euthanasia, organ donation

Linking the "right to die" with organ donation has opened a terrible Pandora's Box.

In the pink

Matthew Hanley | 04 October 2011 |

tags: breast cancer

Even the NFL supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But why is everyone ignoring some of the biggest risk factors?

Why safe euthanasia is a myth

Brian Pollard | 23 September 2011 |

tags: euthanasia

All attempts to legalise voluntary euthanasia protect doctors from prosecution and endanger the lives of their patients.