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Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico Wants Christians To Support Abortion

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Majority of Americans Support Abortion, Pew Finds. Many Remain Persuadable

  More than half of Americans support abortion in all or most cases, according to recent polling by Pew Research Center. The number has remained fairly stable throughout the years, including through the overturning of Roe v. Wade, indicating that legal shifts can’t bypass...
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Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico Wants Christians To Support Abortion

  Christians can support the intentional destruction of innocent preborn babies in the womb—at least that is what the Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate candidate in Texas thinks. State representative James Talarico recently defeated congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the Texas...
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The False “Source of Life”: Nazi Surrogacy and Eugenics

  Lebensborn is a German word meaning “the source of life.” Understood literally, it sounds wonderful. Given its origins in the German Third Reich, however, its meaning is somewhat more ambiguous. Like in all totalitarian systems, name and content are often very different....
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Faithful Reflections

Why Would Mary McAleese Attack Infant Baptism?

  In Shakespeare’s last play “The Tempest,” the island creature Caliban is enslaved by the exiled Duke of Milan who teaches him speech. Caliban used his new skill to curse his master, saying, “you taught me language and my profit on’t is I know how to curse.” This story of...
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NEW YORK STATE’S EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: A Revolutionary Camel

    A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Once a camel gets its nose into your tent, the rest of its body will soon follow, thus wrecking your tent. [1]   Introduction Rushed through the NYS legislature with little public debate,[2] an “Equal Righ...
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The Business of Family Planning

  The global contraceptives market was estimated to be $22 billion in 2016  and...
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Should We “Harvest” Fetal Tissue?

Last summer, a medical ethicist received an unusual phone call from a woman whose...
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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade (Fall, 2004)

  The infamous Roe v. Wade1 decision relies directly and indirectly on the work...
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Pro-Woman Messaging: The Strategy to Win the Mushy Middle

For more than four decades, pro-lifers have been characterized as advocates for the...
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