In his 1983 essay “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation,” President Ronald Reagan wrote that the “real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life?” That ...

Pro-life demonstrators are seen near the Supreme Court in Washington June 15, 2022. The court overruled the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision in its ruling in the Dobbs case on a Mississippi law ...

Senior Policy Analyst, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing Grace Melton is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing.

What is your life worth, in dollar terms? The answers may surprise you. The asking price for murder, for example, is disconcertingly low. The average price of hiring a hitman is A$30,000, estimates ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A Californian’s life was worth $100 million to certain investor-owned utilities. That is ...

Marking the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and the start of the new year, Pope Francis renewed his appeal for a "firm commitment" to respect all human life worldwide. "May we learn to care for every ...

Humanity's once-steady rise in life expectancy is now slowing down, raising the question of whether we're about to reach the ceiling of our longevity. Reading time 8 minutes It’s an inevitable fact of ...

Felicia Kornbluh’s “A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life” is the story of two reproductive rights activists who lived on the same floor of the same New York building but, in an echo of larger patterns in ...

How long can human beings live? Although life expectancy has increased significantly over the past century, thanks largely to improved sanitation and medicine, research into hunter-gatherer ...