European Parliament Backs Abortion Travel Fund As Prelude to ‘Abortion Rights’

  In a move that signals a growing effort to impose abortion access across Europe by indirect means, the European Parliament voted to endorse a proposal that would use European Union funds to underwrite abortion travel — despite the EU’s lack of authority over national...
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The Cost of Independence: A Christmas Meditation

    [This text has been slightly adapted from Rev. Blackburn’s Pastoral Reflections meditation published Dec. 22, 2017.]   And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger (Luke 2:12). Why does the Church make so much of...
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Notes on Pro-Choice Mistakes

  1 The government does not have the right to kill innocent people after their birth; therefore, it has no right to license expectant mothers or their doctors to kill unborn children in the womb. A government that kills innocent human beings (except in the case of justified...
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All Under Judgment; All Needing Mercy

  The readings for the third Sunday of Advent in the Catholic lectionary include this passage from the Letter of James: “Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates.” (5:7-10)  This must be...
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Rural Illinois Town Saw ‘Economic Opportunity’ In Becoming Abortion Hub

  Carbondale, Illinois, a rural town near the Missouri border, has become an abortion hub for women in nearby states, and at least one city employee saw that as a potential “economic opportunity.” Abortion facilities in Carbondale killed 11,000 innocent preborn babies last...
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Satanic Temple Loses Lawsuit Against Idaho’s Pro-Life Law

  Idaho’s law protecting preborn babies from abortions does not turn women into “slaves” or violate their religious liberty, a federal judge affirmed recently. The Satanic Temple brought a lawsuit against the state’s pro-life law based on farfetched legal theories that it...
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Organ-Procurement Organization Lapses Threaten Trust in Transplant Medicine

[Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. The following appeared on National Review online on July 23, 2025 (www.national review.com). Copyright 2025 by National Review....
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Even Abortion Advocates Are Tired of Chemical Abortion Lies  

  As the debate over chemical abortion and its accessibility rages on, a new poll is showing that most American voters support stronger restrictions on the dangerous drugs. A recent poll by McLaughlin & Associates discovered that 70% of American voters support...
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Adoption: The Life-Giving Option America Overlooks

[John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He is especially interested in moral theology and the thought of John Paul II. The following appeared on July 18, 2025, in the National...
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Combating Roe: One Word at a Time

  [Kathryn Jean Lopez is religion editor of National Review. Her following interview with Anne Conlon, then managing editor of the Human Life Review and editor of The Debate Since Roe, was posted on NRO (www.nationalreview.com) on January 20, 2012.] On January 23, opponents...
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