HOT TOPIC: Hannah Devlin (The Guardian) on Nerve Implant Restores Consciousness in Man in Vegetative State

  The findings offer hope to the families of patients in PVS that it may one day be possible to re-establish some basic form of communication. However, some might also question whether such patients would wish to be made more acutely aware of being in a severely injured state.
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Audrey Hepburn’s Beauty Tips

  My title is misleading. It attributes a poem to the stylish actress which she did not compose. “Time Tested Beauty Tips” was one of Hepburn’s favorite poems—she is said to have read it to her children on the last Christmas Eve she spent on earth. Legend credits her with...
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HOT TOPIC: (PJ Media) Planned Parenthood Celebrates ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Emmy Success, Call for Activism

“Couldn’t think of a better ending to the #Emmys if we tried,” Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, tweeted.  
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Our Haunting Insecurities and the Human Weeds

  Modern cosmetics tells us something about our culture’s desire to abort the unborn and euthanize the sick and elderly. In our desire to beautify the body, writes Zygmunt Bauman, “the appearance of the remedy as a rule preceded awareness of the deficiency that clamored to...
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Guess How Much I Love You

  For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him (Psalm 103:11). Our family has a children’s book called Guess How Much I Love You, written nearly 25 years ago by Sam McBratney. A sweet and timeless tale, it recounts...
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Ask Me Anything

Sometimes word games can become mind games. My 11-year-old daughter has Down syndrome. My instinct has always been to put it exactly that way—Down syndrome is something she has, not something that has her or something she is. Does that seem obvious? These are actually hotly...
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HOT TOPIC: Francis says “pro-life” means supporting immigrants, others disagree

According to Maria McFadden Maffucci, editor of  The Human Life Review, “The campaign and election of Donald Trump has shifted, kaleidoscope-like, both the allegiances and divisions in the pro-life movement.” In an interview with Crux, Maffucci said this shift has presented both...
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Our Bodies, Our Minds

  I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may...
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HOT TOPIC: Wesley J. Smith (National Review Online) on Reprogrammed Cells Relieve Parkinsons’ Symptoms

First, this study validates George W. Bush’s prediction, when he placed mild limitations on federal embryonic stem cell funding, that scientists would be able to find ethical means of furthering regenerative medicine without using embryos. Second, contrary to embryonic stem cells...
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Symposium: Whole Life v. Pro-Life?

We asked participants to respond to one or more of three questions: 1) Should people who defend the right to life of the unborn and the dying call themselves “whole-life” or “consistent-life” rather than “pro-life”? 2) Does defending the right to life today require particular...
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