National Review on why Rand Paul and media don’t mix . . .

Large majorities oppose re-criminalizing all abortions. But large majorities also support limits on abortion, including banning them after 20 weeks (when about one-quarter of babies can survive) or 24 weeks (when half or more can)....
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A Job Well Done

The big brouhaha about Sex Trafficking and the Hyde Amendment is finally over in the U.S. Senate. Yesterday the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act unanimously passed—with the Hyde Amendment language firmly intact. The leaders of the pro-life side deserve credit all around:...
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Stop Physician Assisted Suicide: Two videos from the Patients’ Rights Action Fund

The Patients’ Rights Action Fund has released two videos against physician assisted suicide. These two are the first in a series that will include at least 5 and possibly as many as ten short videos, mostly focusing on survivors of terminal illnesses and doctors who treat...
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The Human Life Review

Understanding Coalitions

From time to time I detect an undertone of dissatisfaction from prolifers who don’t like to hear our issue identified as “conservative” or “Republican.” And I wonder: Why should prolifers think it undesirable that our movement is strong enough to be a coalition partner with one...
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Criss-Cross: Democrats, Republicans, and Abortion

Suppose this: suppose a politically savvy Rip Van Winkle in, say, 1965, perceiving that a movement to legalize abortion was gaining strength in the country, were asked, “Which of the two major political parties will eventually identify with that movement?” What would he answer? I...
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Lincoln, the Republican Party, and Human Rights

Tuesday, April 14, marks the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  A century and a half ago, on a fateful Good Friday evening, the 16th President of the United States, the man who ended the scourge of slavery in the United States, was shot at the hand of a...
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Wesley Smith on Artificial Intelligence: via First Things

The existence of a human soul may be a contentious issue these days, but regardless of whether we each have one, a manufactured machine surely would not. –Wesley Smith AI Machines: Things, not Persons    
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“There are no fetal rights!”

It is well known in the pro-life movement that the pro-choice/anti-life lobby at the United Nations has been advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights for many years. The organizations that promote this agenda behave like termites, working to erode and demolish...
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Welcome to 2016

CBS News came out with a new poll last weekend, this one about who Americans would consider voting for as President. Compared to February, Jeb and Rand and Ted and Marco and Scott are up, and so on. Hillary is unchanged and Martin O’Malley is up. But that sort of data will change...
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Life, Sex, and Religion: It All Matters in Washington, D.C.

 The battle over abortion is merging into the battle for religious freedom on another front: In the nation’s capital, religious freedom is being attacked in the name of “reproductive health decisions.” The City Council has enacted a Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act,...
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