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A Tragedy in Georgia Needs a Federal Response

  This article was originally posted March 27, 2026, on Ed Mechmann’s public policy blog, Stepping Out of the Boat.   Every abortion is a tragedy. But the irresponsible and illegal availability of abortion drugs by mail makes things so much worse. A recent incident in...
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Abortion Supporters Focus On Economics, Not Morality

  In the past several weeks, researchers have published papers that claim to show dire economic consequences when states restrict abortion. Abortion supporters are hoping that pro-lifers can be swayed by focusing on economics and the financial consequences of prohibiting...
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To Kill or Not to Kill

  Public protests, for the most part, are attempts to awaken society to a moral position about which society is seemingly asleep. One thing protestors are not at all interested in is dialogue. Their position is deemed ironclad and has no need of being challenged. Among the...
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Striving for the Smell of Heaven

  For prolifers and everyone else, telling the truth is much harder than finding fault. Academia, for example, is filled with brilliant insights, but they are diluted with banal critiques of other professors. Religious and political hypocrisy is so common that even to...
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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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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

   “No issue in U.S. history has produced such an impressive and sustained outpouring...
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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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The Ethics of Fetal Implants

In September 1987, an operation took place at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico...
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BOOKNOTES: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS

  WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS O. Carter...
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