When Dominique Luzuriaga Rivera gave birth to her husband’s baby in June this year, it was both unremarkable and extraordinary. NYPD Officer Jason Rivera was only 22 when he and his partner, Wilbert ...

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People participate in the March for Life on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. The march -- which typically draws busloads of Catholic school students, a large contingent of ...

Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the moment ...

All developmental stages are tiny during the first 4 weeks after conception, and between fertilization and implantation they are virtually invisible. A human egg is about as big as the period at the ...

Pro-life advocates have noted that Judge Mitch Perry’s argument stands at odds with science, which is the position of the Catholic Church and other pro-life groups. A Planned Parenthood Health Center ...

When it comes to abortion, this letter is for all those who subscribe to scientific facts regardless of religious beliefs, personal opinions, or morals. The science of the creation of human life is ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Constitution could soon include a new section that would define human life as including the unborn, during the embryonic and fetal ages of fertilization to full ...

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 ...

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.

When couples experience infertility, medical science presents possible solutions for a potentially successful conception of a baby. Infertility issues can be addressed with Human Chorionic ...