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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

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Seen but Not Heard

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The Billion-Footed Beast and I

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No Empire beyond the Seas

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Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers 

  Last week,  the New York Post reported that an Illinois man had been charged with intentionally drugging his pregnant girlfriend with chemical abortion drugs, which resulted in the loss of her 7-week-old preborn baby. The perpetrator, Emerson Evans, has since been charged...
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Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

  A federal court case recently affirmed that the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment is not a part of the Constitution, despite last-second claims by President Joe Biden. The acknowledgement came when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a...
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   It’s Always Nice to Get a Letter

  It was early last March, the day after my Aunt Marie’s funeral. My cousin Amy and I were returning to our hotel after spending a few hours clearing out her mom’s apartment at the assisted living facility where she had lived. It’s always a big job, and Amy had set a modest...
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Pastoral Reflections

Seen But Not Heard

  I recently made a trip to Tabora, Tanzania, a place most people I know have probably never heard of let alone visited. Certainly, I would not have heard of it but for a connection with the Anglican bishop there, who had repeatedly invited me to visit his diocese. The trip...
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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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Why Roe/Casey Is Still Unsettled

In his first public criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v....
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President Obama and “Black Genocide”

Barack Obama has made history in two unprecedentedly dramatic ways: He is the first...
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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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Scheidler’s Supreme Victory

“Pro-life action news: Mark Wednesday, Feb. 26, in red letters because it is one big...
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