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Science Is Making the Humanity of Unborn Babies Harder to Ignore
Baby Arthur had parvovirus, which was causing his body to fill with fluid. "His organs were failing. His heart was completely enveloped in fluid. It was struggling to pump," his mother said. "If nothing was done, he would not have made it much longer."

Costco Will Sell Discounts for IVF and Egg Freezing
Costco Wholesale is partnering with telehealth provider Sesame and fertility clinic network IVI RMA North America to offer members discounted access to fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, egg freezing and intrauterine insemination, along with savings of up to 80% on certain medications.

Parents Can't Be 'Assigned At Birth' Any More Than Sex Can
The phrase 'sex assigned at birth' was dreamed up to suggest that biological sex (male or female, determined at fertilization and encoded in chromosones) is not an objective reality but a label slapped on a baby by a doctor in a delivery room. As if maleness and femaleness were within the purview and authority of adults to decide. As if the biology was negotiable. Most people now recognize this for what it is: a denial of biological reality."

Technically Human: Elizabeth Condra
Elizabeth Condra is a young wife and new mother. Her son, who is now sixteen months old, was born with a rare multi-gene deletion disorder. After undergoing genetic testing with her husband to determine whether they were carriers for the genetic disorder, genetic counselors "continuously referenced" IVF, even after Elizabeth and her husband said they weren't interested in pursuing it, no matter the results.

Plastic surgeons support waiting until patients are at least 19 years old
For the first time, a major U.S. physician group has recommended against gender transition surgeries for youths.

Human Life Begins at Conception: One Single Cell Becomes Trillions
When the cell was first discovered (and named) by Robert Hooke in 1665, it was hailed as a major discovery. However it was initially thought to be just a cell wall containing a mass of some sort of undifferentiated protoplasm.

Harmed by Medical Transition
Detransition is not a checklist, and it is not a hierarchy...This is not a linear recovery, and it cannot be forced. These are patients who have been harmed by medical transition, and their recovery must proceed at their own pace, guided by their own readiness and their own hard-won understanding.

Skrmetti Is a Partial Victory for Common Sense
While the efforts of gender ideology and its activists have been subdued due to federal and state legislation and executive orders, the threat still remains. PIP's co-founders Mary Hasson and Theresa Farnan discuss why this is the case in context of a major SCOTUS victory which protects children from sex-rejecting procedures.

The Misguided Campaign for "Gender-Affirming" Care
"The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and a lie is still a lie even if everybody believes it." - Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Study Shows Unborn Babies Experience Consciousness
In the ongoing discussions about fetal pain and fetal consciousness, some groups have argued fetuses have no sensory experiences throughout all of pregnancy. They say the neuroinhibitors in fetal blood continually sedate them, so they aren't likely to experience pain (or anything else) until they're born.

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Ethical Perspectives on Bioethics

New! Abortion, Compromise and the Ethics of Saving Some

Dave Deane
Does saving some lives from abortion now - while leaving others unprotected - constitute faithfulness or compromise? Can love afford to wait for perfect justice? Inside the debate between incrementalism and abolitionism.

Embryo Personhood

Judie Brown
The simple fact that every human being has a similar beginning as a single cell fertilized egg seems to be more than some people can comprehend. This came into stark focus when we read Professor Risa Cromer's article entitled "Embryo Personhood's IVF Problem: What the Data Reveals."

Human Exceptionalism and Artificial Intelligence

John Stonestreet
What's the point of formation over efficiency, leisure over work, and wisdom over perfection?

IVF and Surrogacy: Pandora's Box

Jean Seah
Growing access to IVF and surrogacy raises serious ethical concerns - from exploitation of young women and donor identity risks, to the destruction of millions of embryos.

Embryo Personhood

Judie Brown
The simple fact that every human being has a similar beginning as a single cell fertilized egg seems to be more than some people can comprehend. This came into stark focus when we read Professor Risa Cromer's article entitled "Embryo Personhood's IVF Problem: What the Data Reveals."

Christianity and Science Not in Conflict? We'll Believe It When We See It!

Ann Farmer
The tired claim that science and faith are at odds ignores a rich history of Christian scientists - and a rather unscientific leap of its own.

Happy "Birth" Day? A Thought Experiment

Anthony Jose Sirven
The definition of "personhood" isn't an issue we can push off much longer; technology will make us face it sooner than some might prefer.

Ectopic Pregnancy: Dispelling Misinformation

Susan Ciancio
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, we have seen anger. We have seen violence. And we have seen the dispersal of all kinds of misinformation - most of it aimed at increasing rage, stirring up indignation, and causing confusion. One of the pieces of misinformation that continues to spread pertains to ectopic pregnancies.

While We Were Sleeping - Artificial Intelligence

Jim Twelves
A timely Christian reflection on Artificial Intelligence's promises and perils, urging discernment amid rising transhumanism, deception, and prophetic parallels drawn from Scripture and contemporary thinkers.

Stem Cell Ethics: What's Moral, What's Not, and Why It Matters

Susan Ciancio
Controversies are extremely prominent in the field of stem cell research, as scientists debate the different kinds and the varying benefits of each. Some stem cells are taken from adults or even from a mother's placenta. These are ethical sources. But some stem cells are taken from aborted embryos or from embryos created during IVF. We will explore why this is wrong, what the Catholic Church teaches on the subject of stem cell research, and what advancements have been made with a special kind of stem cell.

A Look Inside the Endometriosis Epidemic

Merlot Mary Fogarty
Can We Restore Hope in Women?s Healthcare? Change at all levels of healthcare, education, and policy need to be made to meet infertility upstream and to care for the health and well-being of women at all stages of life, including before they are trying to become mothers.

AI-Assisted Suicide for Couples: The Disturbing Rise of the Sarco Pod

Shenan J. Boquet
The truth that life is a precious gift from God has profound implications for the question of stewardship over human life. We are not the owners of our lives and, hence, do not have absolute power over life. ... Suicide and euthanasia are never morally acceptable options.