Below are links to MCCL articles and blog posts defending the pro-life position on abortion, euthanasia and embryo-destructive research.
A Case Against Abortion (a scientific and philosophical argument against abortion; answering pro-choice rhetoric; the 'back-alley' argument; the hard cases of rape and incest)
Let's Be Clear: What Is Killed in an Abortion? (clarifying the issue)
What Science Tells Us About the Unborn (the facts of human embryology)
The Moral Status Unborn Human Beings (why the unborn should not be excluded from the moral community)
Does Rape Justify Abortion?
Moral Relativism and Abortion (tolerance, imposing morality, "don't like abortion, don't have one," etc.)
The Argument from Bodily Autonomy (Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist analogy)
The Bible and Abortion: Nine Truths
Following the logic: Ethicists advocate 'after-birth abortion'
Answering criticisms of abortion clinic licensing, webcam abortion ban bills
Is the unborn 'living and breathing'?
'The stem cell debates: Lessons for science and politics'
Assessing Pres. Obama's statement on Roe anniversary
'The unbearable wrongness of Roe'
Roe v. Wade: Absurd, deadly, catastrophic
Embryo adoption as solution to problem of frozen embryos
Responding to the case for legalized abortion in Africa
Infanticide of disabled newborns: Issues and options
When Jesus came into the world -- and its implications for abortion
What Christmas tells us about human dignity
A pro-life conversation guide
No relevant difference: A simple argument against abortion
University of Minnesota should take an ethics class
Stuck on the slippery slope
Does having a brain make one a person? Does sentience?
A Catholic-Mormon dialogue on embryo rights
Does early miscarriage cast doubt on the status of embryos?
0-for-history: The track record of 'human non-personhood'
The most important political issue in America today
David Frum's confusion over the legal question of abortion
Aristotle, the poor pregnant mom, and true happiness
San Jose Articles refute claim of international right to abortion
Missing the point about the beginning of life
Infanticide helps clarify the tragedy of abortion
Three bad arguments for assisted suicide
Do I matter simply for being me?
'When having a choice diminishes family solidarity'
Who counts? The question of membership
What follows from being pro-life?
How the health care debate is about human equality
The most important issue in the 2012 presidential race
Cloning and the nature of living things
Francis Collins on the moral status of cloned embryos
What is at stake: Abortion, slavery and a foundational principle
The scope of 'all men'
Deductive reasoning and the pro-life argument: Part Two
Deductive reasoning and the pro-life argument
Women's equality, abortion and the Constitution
Pro-choice advocates explain why Roe v. Wade was a terrible decision
Why is sex-selection abortion wrong?
Scientific consensus on beginning of life achieved in 1800s
'Pro-abortion' vs. 'pro-choice'
Abortion wrong, but should be legal?
'Abortion is not chosen casually'
Does legalized abortion reduce crime?
Thoughts on assisted suicide: Why the debate is about equality
Two incontestable truths; two possibilities for defending abortion
Embryologic terminology
May we 'legislate morality'? Manipulating the ground rules
New analysis of maternal mortality confirms health care, not abortion, saves women's lives
A response to the Star Tribune regarding MCCL-backed legislation
Science, religion, and the question of when life begins
Why abortion should not be legal (what justice requires)
A response to Meri Firpo and John Wagner on human cloning
What if we are uncertain about fetal pain?
Cloning advocate: 'What we do is none of your business'
A response to Scott Dibble regarding Planned Parenthood
Misinformation, poor thinking in an age of biotechnology
Three rationales for protecting pain-capable unborn children
Abortion in the case of a terminal prenatal diagnosis
The cloning debate: Why killing human embryos is unethical
Differing abortion defenders reflect intellectual state of pro-choice movement
Should human cloning be banned? Is the embryo an organism?
Moral responsibility and choice
Imposing a choice
Appealing to the hard cases
Dog euthanasia v. people euthanasia
Abortion and the soul
Peter Singer: Taking the abortion ethic seriously
Is government funding of abortion 'a matter of equity'?
Pro-life movement based on truth and love
Ronald Reagan on the value of all human life
Is abortion justified because miscarriage is common?
Pres. Obama on abortion: No argument, just rhetoric
How choice is not relevant to the abortion debate
Roe v. Wade: Why the Court was wrong
The foundational principle of a just society
The connection between racism and abortion
Why fetal pain matters, whether abortion is wrong or not
What Christmas tells us about human dignity and equality
Abortion and the unborn baby Jesus
The viability criterion for fetal personhood
Why pro-lifers should be involved in politics and legislation
Should abortion be legalized in Africa? Why the argument fails
The limits of pragmatic arguments in the stem cell debate
When does personhood begin? A biblical perspective
Online videos: Advanced pro-life apologetics
The obligation to participate in elections
Voting in elections: Weighing issues, choosing a candidate
The purpose of government
The nature and implications of human rights
Abortion as an economic issue
Video: Why human embryos are equal in value (SLED test)
The case against killing human embryos
The absurdity of Obama's view
'Each person is necessary' -- and it's implications for abortion
Embryos as 'balls of cells': Minnesota scientist misleads on embryology
Ronald Reagan: 'The real question today' is human value
Abortion to save the mother's life
'Person' language used to exclude, justify killing
Why men should talk about abortion
How feminism is inconsistent with legal abortion
On our moral obligations, the requirements of conscience
Both hearts and laws must be changed
Declaration of Independence: Does 'all men' include the unborn?
'Discarded anyway'? The rationale for embryo-destructive research
'Toy Story 3' and the pro-life view
What is human dignity?
Peter Singer: Should we make ourselves extinct?
The facts of fertilization
When does life begin?
Patrick Lee, David Boonin and the argument from bodily autonomy
'Duty to die'? We have obligations to each other
The pro-choice plan to 'reduce the need for abortion'
Should abortion be 'rare'? Only if it's wrong
Peter Kreeft and David Boonin debate the ethics of abortion
Why we show photos of newborn babies
How to address the problem of maternal mortality
Comparing human beings to marble sculptures
The pro-life view is not 'biological reductionism'
Are embryos people? The burning research lab scenario
Denial of food, fluids is wrong regardless of vegetative state
'Choice' is not the issue
Do pro-lifers advocate 'compulsory maternity'?
The logic of morals, the logic of law
Remembering Terri Schiavo
Assessing the 'quality of life' ethic
The argument from bodily autonomy
What makes us equal
Is abortion necessary for women's equality?
Abortion is 'might makes right' ethic
The argument from ignorance
The structure of moral reasoning
The ad hominem fallacy and pro-choice rhetoric
The Golden Rule and abortion
Human beings are not like constructed objects
Human beings are not made -- they develop
Euthanizing 'vegetative' patients
Women in jail if abortion is illegal? No
The problem with pro-choice rhetoric
Why we celebrate women who choose life
'A fetus is not a life'
Tough circumstances that (don't) justify abortion
The intellectual bankruptcy of the pro-choice movement
Pelosi's free will defense of legal abortion
The basis for women's dignity
The dangers of egg harvesting to women
The pro-life movement and 'common liberal values'
Abortion funding is not pro-choice
Are you interested in what's true?
A market in fetal organs? If you're 'pro-choice' ...
Is the pro-life position a threat to religious liberty?
Answering pro-choice arguments -- the real issue
Human value: three possibilities
Abortion is never the answer
Abortion law does affect incidence of abortion
'Personally opposed' to abortion
The maternal mortality argument for legalized abortion
Abortion is psychologically (but not morally) complex
Switching from pro-life to pro-choice
Assisted suicide: People should be helped, not helped to die
Aliens, 'District 9' and the pro-life view
Pro-lifer says 'hands off my body,' but no contradiction
Making the 'easy' choice
'Trust women' an empty slogan
Crux of the health care debate
Arguments for assisted suicide
Abortion should not be covered in health care reform
Is the unborn a mere 'blueprint'?
Abortion as a human right
The overpopulation myth and abortion
What does President Obama really believe about the value of human life?
Is abortion a religious issue? What the debate is really about
Teaching the pro-life view to 2nd graders
Efforts to deny biological status of human embryos fail
'Potential life' requires potential abortion
The reasons for abortion do not justify killing human beings
Does PETA's abortion view make sense?
Why pro-life? Science and the unborn
Why pro-life? Clarifying the issue
Why pro-life? Making the case against abortion
A need to better articulate, defend the pro-life position
Why a medical student wants to perform abortions
The abortion/breast cancer link
Does legalizing abortion protect women's health?
LeRoy Carhart's bizarre rationale for abortion
Pro-embryo research rhetoric misses the point
'Nuancing' the abortion debate
Questions for President Obama after his Notre Dame speech
Rebecca Kiessling and the rape/incest argument for abortion rights
Debate reaction: Abortionist begged the question
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