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by Margaret Datiles, J.D., Associate Fellow
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 Gendercide through sex-selective abortion has resulted in the loss of at
least 163 million girls and a global imbalance in sex ratios. The
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women has described this
as “the most telling indicator of women’s devalued position in society,”
and condemned sex-selective abortions as “grave forms of discrimination
against women.” [1] The United Nations is not alone in identifying
this global problem. Within the last year, researchers and newspapers
have brought heightened attention to this issue. For example, in March
2010, The Economist featured a striking cover story entitled,
“Gendercide: The worldwide war on baby girls.” And just this June 2011,
researcher Mara Hvistendahl published Unnatural Selection: Choosing
Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, a book that
The Wall Street Journal has hailed as “one of the most consequential
books ever written in the campaign against abortion.” [2]
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07/05/2011
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by Helen M. Alvaré, J.D., Senior Fellow in Law
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Every presidential administration in Washington DC does some things that appear stupid in hindsight. It gets caught up in the moment, pandering to this or that political constituency, or reacting too precipitously to some big or newsworthy event. In our 24-hour-news-cycle world, and especially if we’re sophisticated news consumers, we simply discount the importance of poor presidential decisions and move on, even as we might grow incrementally more cynical over time about government in general.
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12/22/2009
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by William E. May, Ph.D., Senior Fellow
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 In a previous essay I presented and criticized the consequentialist
understanding of human acts central to the culture of death. Here I
will set forth the true understanding of human acts central to the
culture of life. This understanding, fully compatible with Christian
faith, is also philosophically sound; it is the meaning of human acts
undergirding “natural law.”
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03/17/2009
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by Matt Hanley
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 In a country where population control efforts exhort male sterilization, compensation for loss of manhood is equated to guns. “Today’s Solutions are Tomorrow’s Problems”…and not a woman around to help.
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04/18/2008
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by Joe Capizzi, Ph.D.
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The fine people at “Compassion and Choices” were kind enough to send me a solicitation letter the other day. “Dear Friend,” they write and began to celebrate the near anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding an Oregon law permitting “American adults the right to choose a dignified, pain-free, humane death with help from their doctors.”
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10/18/2006
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