About the Author

Brian Clowes, PhD

Dr. Brian Clowes has been HLI’s director of research since 1995 and is one of the most accomplished and respected intellectuals in the international pro-life movement. Best known as author of the most exhaustive pro-life informational resource volume The Facts of Life, and for his Pro-Life Basic Training Course, Brian is the author of nine books and over 500 scholarly and popular articles, and has traveled to 70 countries on six continents as a pro-life speaker, educator and trainer.

National Security Study Memorandum 200: Blueprint for World Depopulation

By Brian Clowes, PhD / July 17, 2020 /
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The National Security Council is the highest decision-making body in the United States government.  In December 1974, it finalized a top-secret document entitled National Security Study Memorandum 200, or NSSM-200, subtitled “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.”1  This document was written because the NSC saw rapid population growth in the less-developed…

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How Special are “Gay Rights”?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / July 8, 2020 /
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When pro-family people claim that homophile groups are pushing a “special rights” agenda, they are roundly condemned and ridiculed by homosexual leaders, the media, and the glitterati. “Gay rights” organizations assert that they are not asking for special rights, but only for the same rights that everyone else enjoys. For example, activist Frank Brown said…

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The Ethics of Artificial Reproductive Technologies

By Brian Clowes, PhD / July 7, 2020 /
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The very probability that we may be faced with a human person in the full sense constitutes, in my opinion, an absolute veto against any type of [in-vitro] experimentation. ― Father Bernard Häring.1   Introduction Assisted reproductive technology is one of the most complex moral fields debated today.  It is actually an aggregation of several…

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The Early History of the Eugenics Movement

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 30, 2020 /

The eugenic movement, therefore, cannot be a short campaign like many political or social movements. It is, rather, like the founding and development of Christianity, something to be handed on from age to age. ~ “Report of the President of the American Eugenics Society, Inc.,” 1926.   As this short history of the eugenics movement…

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What Does the Catholic Church Teach about Homosexuality?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 26, 2020 /
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Few doctrines are so vehemently opposed as that of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. Every good Catholic instinctively knows that science always supports the teachings of the Church, particularly with regards to matters of sexual morality.  Those who avoid abortion, extramarital sex, pornography, divorce, contraception, sterilization and other sexual sins are usually much more content…

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Is God the Biggest Abortionist of All?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 24, 2020 /
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Why be pro-life if God allows babies to die in the womb all the time? If the pro-abortion movement is justified in characterizing God as an abortionist, certainly its opponents have a serious problem to consider. “God Is an Abortionist”: The Atheist View Several major studies of pregnancy have revealed that one-fourth to one-third of all…

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Bridging the Gap between Transgenderism and Transhumanism

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 23, 2020 /
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We are being conditioned by force and by media propaganda to accept the idea that transgenderism is here to stay.  One of the ways the “trans” rights movement does this is to attempt to show us that we are helpless to stop it by intruding into every facet of our lives and threatening to punish…

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The Eugenics Philosophy

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 19, 2020 /
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It is unjust to cut short the days of a well-shaped person. It is not unjust, I say, to prevent the arrival in the world of a being who will certainly be useless to it. ~ The Marquis de Sade.1 The Problem of the Philosophy of Eugenics Despite all of the posturing and lofty theorizing…

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What Is Transgenderism?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 12, 2020 /
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“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child.” ~ P.J. O’Rourke.1 While those fortunate few who still possessed a lingering sense of reality cringed at the bizarre photo of Bruce Jenner and the subtitle “Call Me Caitlyn” on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2015, the press swooned over him and President Barack Obama…

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The Environmentalist Roots of the Population Control Movement

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 10, 2020 /
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Concern for our environment is the most altruistic of the several primary motivations which drive the activities of the population control movement.  Unfortunately, the leaders of many population control groups think that the best way to preserve our natural surroundings is to decrease the number of people in the world by whatever means are available.…

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