Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Surrogacy as Modern Slavery

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | September 8, 2025 |

“The practice of surrogacy is characterized by exploitation and violence against women and children, including girls. It reinforces patriarchal norms by commodifying and objectifying women’s bodies and exposing surrogate mothers and children to serious human rights violations.” ― Report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls A little over a year…

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Paul Ehrlich is Dead, but His Anti-life Legacy Lives

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | March 23, 2026 |

On Friday, March 13, Paul Ehrlich – Stanford biologist, celebrity doomsayer, and author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb – died at 93 in Palo Alto, California. In their obituary, the New York Times described Ehrlich as “an eminent ecologist and population scientist” whose predictions were merely “premature.” Which is surely one of the…

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