August Homework for Pro-Lifers

If you’re lucky, you live in or near a city where an anti-Planned Parenthood demonstration is going to take place this Saturday—August 22. Click here to find the one nearest you. Whether or not you go to a protest, there are things every single one of us can do right now to help...
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Maffucci article about Vitae Foundation applauded

Read about their important research here:   In her article Marffucci’s conclusion is the best news of all. “The Vitae Foundation is one of many effective and varied pro-life organizations working to turn the tide after Roe, with undeniable results. Last November, the CDC...
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Ask No Questions for Conscience’s Sake: The Stem Express of 1884

  As someone once said long ago, there’s nothing new under the sun. While we scramble to keep up with the many implications of the ongoing release of the Center for Medical Research videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s horrific side business, we must not overlook the...
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In a Basin Clearly

Friday, 6:00 p.m., September 30th. Three deliveries and two hours of sleep in the past 36 hours.  I run to escape the weariness of a solo obstetric practice. Ascending out of town on a dirt road, the majesty of fall in Montana envelopes me. Ahead are groves of golden quaking...
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Yesterday’s Vote Set the Stage

There were 53 votes in the U.S. Senate to defund Planned Parenthood yesterday. For pro-life, that should count as a victory. Planned Parenthood has deep roots on Capitol Hill. We have always known that, so the remarkable thing about yesterday is that the vote to defund it was as...
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Human Life Review

CHOICE AND MORALITY

Abortion activists and supporters—which is to say, most of the Democratic Party and the entirety of the liberal intelligentsia—like to frame abortion as a liberty issue. You know—choice; as with music and toothpaste. The Planned Parenthood imbroglio of recent weeks helps dispel...
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What I Saw at the Abortion: The doctor observed, the man saw.

I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all the outpourings of disease—phlegm, pus, vomitus, even those occult meaty tumors that terrify—I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on. I touch them to destroy them. But I do not make symbols of...
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S. 1881 on the Fast Track—Senate to Vote on Defunding Planned Parenthood

  As early as Monday, the U.S. Senate could have a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. For sure, the vote will occur before it leaves for its August recess later next week. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has “fast-tracked” the bill, S. 1881, and the official clock has...
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