Pro-Life Medical Research Initiative

Research that defends life — from conception to natural death.

MyCatholicDoctor supports ethical, evidence-based studies that advance pro-life medicine and strengthen Catholic healthcare worldwide.

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Why Pro-Life Research Matters

Faithful medical research is essential to ensuring that Catholic clinicians can practice medicine grounded in both truth and evidence.
The Pro-Life Medical Research Initiative supports projects that expand understanding of life-affirming treatments, advance ethical clinical science, and demonstrate that compassionate, faithful medicine is also effective medicine.

Our priorities include:

Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) research — documenting outcomes and protocols to help scale APR care across the United States
Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) — studying natural, root-cause treatments for infertility and women’s health
Integration with the STORRM registry — contributing de-identified patient data to international research on Restorative Reproductive Medicine

Each of these efforts helps ensure that pro-life healthcare is recognized not just as moral — but as medically excellent.

Why This Matters

Contraception and artificial reproduction separate love from life — but God’s design unites them.
Through the One Flesh Initiative, MyCatholicDoctor helps couples understand fertility as a gift, empowering them to live fully and faithfully within the sacrament of marriage.

“…and the two shall become one flesh.” — Genesis 2:24

When couples live according to this truth, they find not only stronger marriages but deeper communion with God.

How You Can Help

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Pray for Catholic researchers, scientists, and physicians who courageously uphold the truth about life in their work.

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$100,000 funds the increased cost of our upgraded electronic health record (EHR), essential for integrating patient data with research platforms
$20,000 supports a part-time Clinical Research Director to oversee ongoing studies and compliance
$1,000 contributes to publishing and disseminating findings from pro-life research

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Encourage Catholic medical professionals, students, and research institutions to join our efforts in building a new foundation for ethical, faithful science.

Your prayers and generosity empower MyCatholicDoctor to lead the way in ethical, life-affirming medical research — ensuring that every discovery points back to the Author of Life.

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Our Research Partnerships

Beginning February 1, 2026, MyCatholicDoctor will begin submitting anonymized patient data to the
Surveillance of Treatment Outcomes for Restorative Reproductive Medicine (STORRM) —
a registry project of the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine (IIRRM),
in collaboration with the University of Utah and Neofertility.

This collaboration represents a historic milestone for Catholic healthcare:
for the first time, life-affirming treatment outcomes will be scientifically documented on a national scale.

Rooted in Faith, Grounded in Science

Scientific integrity and Catholic moral teaching are not in conflict — they complete each other.
Our research work is guided by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) and the example of
Venerable Jerome Lejeune, patron of pro-life medical research and genetic science.

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.” — St. John Paul II

Impact Snapshot

Advancing truth through faithful science.

Active collaboration with international RRM research partners
Integration with the STORRM registry for outcome tracking
Expansion of Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) and Restorative Medicine studies
Strengthening data-driven advocacy for life-affirming care