To the editor: Taking issue with a recent statement of the mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to “serve and protect Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception,” ...

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 ...

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from 2018 to 2022. Near the top of the document, the agency presents ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

The response to the coronavirus outbreak has rightly been about protecting human life. As a nation, we have taken extraordinary steps to protect public health and save lives. However, there is a huge ...

The biblical creation story tells us human life begins with the first breath (Genesis 2-7). The non-biblical claim life commences with conception is contrived and contradicts scripture, history, ...

A decisive rebuke of the silliest argument for abortion. No one congratulates expectant parents on their “product of conception.” No one throws a “fetus” shower. No one thrills to hear the “embryonic ...

The Department of Health and Human Services’s new strategic plan defines life as beginning at conception. “HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of ...