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Charlotte Lozier Institute

Phone: 202-223-8073
Fax: 571-312-0544

2776 S. Arlington Mill Dr.
#803
Arlington, VA 22206

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April 29, 2026 Public Comment: Lozier Institute on NIH’s Request for Information on Reducing Reliance on Human Embryonic Stem Cells in NIH-Supported Research Public Comment: Lozier Institute on NIH’s Request for Information on Reducing Reliance on Human Embryonic Stem Cells in NIH-Supported Research April 14, 2026 Drug-induced Abortion After the First Trimester Drug-induced Abortion After the First Trimester April 10, 2026 Abortion Law in America Today: Confronting Infringements on Pro-life Laws Abortion Law in America Today: Confronting Infringements on Pro-life Laws
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Assisted Suicide Is Not Compassion
End of Life

Assisted Suicide Is Not Compassion

The Reality of Late-Term Abortion Procedures
Abortion

The Reality of Late-Term Abortion Procedures

Of interest to the medical, moral, sociological, and political issues surrounding late-term abortion is the question of why women seek abortion after twenty weeks gestation. Any data considered to answer this question must be examined carefully for limitations. However, a greater understanding of the reasons why women choose these late-term procedures is valuable to those who seek to offer alternative, compassionate options.

The Constitutional Viability of Five-Month Abortion Laws
Life & the Law

The Constitutional Viability of Five-Month Abortion Laws

Five-month abortion laws restrict abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy—when an unborn child can feel pain from abortion. Opponents of five-month abortion laws argue they violate the “viability rule” created by the U.S. Supreme Court. The viability rule provides that government “may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability.” In most cases viability will occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy. However, the viability rule is unworkable, arbitrary, unjust, poorly reasoned, inadequate, and extreme. The viability rule cannot be justified, especially as applied to five-month laws. In a challenge to a five-month law it is reasonable to conclude that the Court might abandon the viability rule altogether or not apply it to five-month laws.

Fetal Development

A Scientific View of When Life Begins

In this paper, Dr. Maureen Condic examines scientific evidence for the point at which it is evident that human life begins.

End of Life

Improving Joyful Lives: Society’s Response to Difference and Disability

This paper looks at the highly complex genetic condition that is Down syndrome and society’s response to individuals with this condition. This important paper points out that while research to improve the lives of those with Down syndrome has progressed, federal funding for it lags considerably behind that for other genetic disorders. Policy recommendations are made for the support of those with this condition and their families.

Cloning is Cloning is Cloning
Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics

Cloning is Cloning is Cloning

This primer on cloning examines the nature and purpose of human cloning in light of recent developments in stem cell technology. The paper points out that all cloning is reproductive and reflects on the immediate outcome of human cloning - a human embryo - while examining the terminology used by cloning advocates to obscure the facts.

Ethical Stem Cells: Back to Basics
Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics

Ethical Stem Cells: Back to Basics

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s (CIRM) initial round of grants for 2014 provides an interesting perspective on a pattern of research funding that has emerged at CIRM in recent years.

Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms
Life & the Law

Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms

This groundbreaking report finds that the United States is one of only seven countries in the world to permit elective abortion beyond 20 weeks gestation. It examines international abortion policies and finds U.S. laws to be among the most permissive in the world - allowing abortion more than halfway through pregnancy and past the point at which research shows the unborn child can feel pain.

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