Arina Grossu Agnew

Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism

Arina Grossu Agnew, M.A., M.S., is a Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. She focuses on the protection of human dignity, human rights, and the sanctity of human life from fertilization to natural death. Her areas of expertise include abortion, women’s health, bioethics, conscience, pornography, sex trafficking, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. She is the founder and principal at Areté Global Consulting where she works on policy, bioethics, communications, and strategic partnerships. She is a guest contributor at Charlotte Lozier Institute, contributor to Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center, and an author at the National Catholic Register. She is part of a bioethics working group at the Heritage Foundation. Ms. Grossu is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

Ms. Grossu is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in Philosophy. She earned her M.S. in Bioethics from the University of Mary and an M.A. in Theology, magna cum laude, from the Dominican House of Studies. She is also certified in Health Care Ethics through the National Catholic Bioethics Center. She is an alumna of the Vita Institute at the University of Notre Dame, an intensive intellectual formation program for leaders in the national and international pro-life movement.

During the Trump Administration, Ms. Grossu worked as a Senior Communications Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office for Civil Rights, protecting conscience, religious freedom rights, and civil rights in healthcare. She is the former Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council where she was a spokeswoman and policymaker on life and human dignity issues.

Ms. Grossu has done television interviews on CNN, ABC, BBC, Fox News, EWTN, and CBN. Her articles and commentary have appeared in USA Today, LA Times, National Review, Bloomberg, Townhall, The Federalist, Washington Times, Daily Signal, Washington Examiner, National Catholic Register, Daily Caller, Christian Post, and others.

Ms. Grossu has presented lectures at the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women; Trinity International University’s Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity; University of Notre Dame; Regent University Law School’s Center for Global Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law; and Indiana Wesleyan University’s Bastian Center for the Study of Human Trafficking. She has testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

Ms. Grossu is a Dame of Malta, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, and a National Board Member of the Salesian Sisters Partners Circle. She is also a Claremont Speechwriters’ Fellow and a Leonine Fellow.

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IVF Isn’t the Pro-Life Option for Addressing Fertility Issues

A bill proposed by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is far too extreme since it contains a sweeping definition of "assisted reproductive technology," which goes beyond the deregulation of the IVF industry, and would legalize human cloning, surrogacy, gene editing, human-animal chimera hybrids, and other abuses of human embryos.

Community Schools’ ‘Woke’ Indoctrination Agenda

On July 12, the U.S. Department of Education announced $68 million in grants for Full-Service Community Schools. President Biden has already requested $468 million for the 2023 fiscal year for community schools and has made it clear that an expansion of community schools falls within his policy agenda. What is behind this aggressive push for community schools by the White House, state governments, and the education establishment? While the focus on the broader needs of the students and their families rather than just education seems benign, in reality, it is anything but innocent. The schools are a means to advance a radical, left-wing agenda on children, often without their parents’ knowledge. The unique feature of a community school is integrated student services, commonly

Texas Heartbeat Law Beats Strongly, Inspires Other States to Follow Suit

The Texas heartbeat law has given tens of thousands of Texas babies a second chance at life. The pro-life movement embraces women in unplanned pregnancies and stands ready to help them. The current situation in Texas gives us a peek into a post-Roe world. Yes, we can love them both and save them both, and we must. Simply put, the (heart)beat goes on.