To the editor: Taking issue with a recent statement of the mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to “serve and protect Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception,” ...

In the face of the very real cross of infertility that many couples face today, the Church instead promotes research into infertility treatments that respect human life, including adult stem-cell ...

The response to the coronavirus outbreak has rightly been about protecting human life. As a nation, we have taken extraordinary steps to protect public health and save lives. However, there is a huge ...

A new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) draft Strategic Plan for 2018 through 2022 contains verbiage defining human life as "beginning at conception" (i.e. with the fertilization of ...

Some of the old distractions concerning the abortion debate have been circulating, including in letters to the editor in the News Tribune (Reader's View: "Are pro-life zealots really control freaks?" ...

This complicated but fundamental question has enormous ethical, legal, medical, philosophical, religious and scientific overtones. An article in The Journal of the Association of Basic Medical ...

The last time I wrote about the French political philosopher Pierre Manent for City Journal, I explored his “theological-political reflection” in light of the publication of his 2015 book Situation de ...

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

In the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, Dec. 8 is the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, but this year it was moved to Monday the 9th to avoid a conflict with the Second Sunday of Advent.