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With Pro-Abortion Speech Law, New Jersey’s War on Women Continues

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Setting the Bar

FAITHFUL REFLECTIONS: Rev. Victor Lee Austin

The Cries of a Newborn

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Mothers of the Murdered

FAITHFUL REFLECTIONS: Rev. George G. Brooks

The Mystery of the Cross

NEWSworthy: Anita Blanchard

Surrogate Refuses to Abort Baby with Heart Defect, Saving His Life

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Renting Wombs, Rending Hearts: The Dark Realities of Surrogacy

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Entrepreneur Bryan Johnson Makes a “Clone” to Delay Death

Faithful Reflections: Robert Marshall

RFAs: Making Christian Ethics and Common Sense Unconstitutional

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Massachusetts Officially Enshrines Abortion Up Till Birth

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With Pro-Abortion Speech Law, New Jersey’s War on Women Continues  

   New Jersey Governor Mike Sherrill signed a bill on Aug. 20 that many fear will be used to undermine the First Amendment and prohibit Americans from praying outside abortion facilities.    According to the Catholic News Agency, the bill will implement a sort of “bubble”...
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Surrogate Refuses to Abort Baby with Heart Defect, Saving His Life

  Surrogate mother McKenna West gave birth to baby boy Gabriel on Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the midst of a hurricane of legal battles. West was 20 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound revealed that Gabriel had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a serious heart condition that...
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Setting the Bar

  The idiomatic expressions “lowering the bar” and its opposite “raising the bar” have their modern-day roots in pole vaulting competitions—although it’s unlikely many of us find our inner dictionaries turning to that reference page, so ingrained is that phrase in our minds...
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Faithful Reflections

The Cries of a Newborn

  Locke is a film from a dozen years ago, a minor classic. It is also a life-affirming surprise. The film opens with Locke (Tom Hardy) getting into his BMW at the end of a day of work. In the dark he sets out for London, a two hour drive, rather than his home where his wife...
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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 Ethics of Fetal Implants

In September 1987, an operation took place at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico...
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Abortion Looming in Ireland

When last I wrote for this publication, Ireland had been through a huge national 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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Is the IRS Targeting Prolifers?

While it is clear that the IRS has targeted Tea Party groups for special...
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