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The Pro-abortion VP at the March for Life

The following is from Ed Mechmann’s public policy blog “Stepping Out of the Boat,” January 22 and is reprinted with permission. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Perhaps I’m naive, but I thought that being...
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International Planned Parenthood Slashes Nearly 1,000 Jobs Due to Trump Funding Cuts

  The International Planned Parenthood Federation is shedding jobs left and right due to President Donald Trump’s prohibitions on subsidizing the abortion industry. The group said “the Trump Administration’s funding cuts have forced 34 of International Planned...
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Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be

  In July 1997, a married couple in Oldenburg, Germany discovered in the twentieth week of the wife’s pregnancy that the child the woman was carrying had Down syndrome. The woman was in her twenty-fifth week of pregnancy when she underwent a saline abortion. In order to...
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Dasein ohne Leben (or “Existence without Life”): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest

  The Nazis produced powerful propaganda. Among their many propaganda products was “Dasein ohne Leben,” which is German for “Existence without Life.” The original film and its copies were lost at the end of World War II.  What follows is the transcript of a ten-minute...
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Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? A Symposium

  The Right That Makes Women Grieve George McKenna Every so often, if only to...
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From the Editor: On Hijacking Immigration Uproar

As I write this, the Human Life Review is seeing an unprecedented amount of public...
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Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

  THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a good...
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In a Basin Clearly

Friday, 6:00 p.m., September 30th. Three deliveries and two hours of sleep in the...
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