Blessed are the Barren…

  He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children (Psalm 113:9).   I remember my father, a plastic surgeon, speaking of a woman who came to him to see if he could remove the tattoos on her hands. She no longer wanted them, and their presence had...
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HOT TOPIC: from USA TODAY, Abortion rates plummet!

  Read the full story here:   The last time the CDC recorded a lower abortion rate was in 1971, two years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that established a nationwide right for women to have abortions. Abortion was legal in some states at...
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Government by Twitter?

  It is clear that Donald Trump will keep tweeting after he is sworn into office as President. His Twitter site now claims to have over 20 million followers. What politician would give up such a goldmine of support? Especially when media reporters follow it closely? If Trump...
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Wei Jingsheng, Champion of Universal Human Rights

Wei Jingsheng, perhaps the Peoples Republic of China’s best known pro-democracy, human-rights activist, spent a total of 18 years in prison as a dissident charged with “counter revolution propaganda and agitation.” He was released in 1997 and, following pressure from the Clinton...
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My Controversial Choice to Become Pro-life

It took me a long time, when I was much younger, to understand a conversation like the one a nine-year-old boy was having recently at the dinner table with his mother, a physician who performs abortions. I heard the story from her husband when he found out I’m a pro-lifer. “What...
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President Obama and “Black Genocide”

Barack Obama has made history in two unprecedentedly dramatic ways: He is the first black American president, but, in a chillingly grim breakthrough, also the most pro-abortion president in our history. In his unbroken record of voting against saving the lives of babies born...
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The Scope of the Sin

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).     A woman who has voluntarily undergone an abortion has sinned. The church has been clear about that. Perhaps we have been less clear that she is also a woman who has been sinned against....
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Great Defender of Life 2016: The Video!

Missed our annual dinner back in October? You can watch all the proceedings here! Also check our photo gallery of the event, and check back often for more photos, news—and exciting updates about next year!   PART ONE   Fr. John McCartney: 0:34 Maria McFadden Maffucci...
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HOT TOPIC: The Select Investigative Panel Releases Final Report on Fetal Tissue Sales

U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN HONORED TO SERVE THE 7TH DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE PRESS RELEASE   HONORED TO SERVE THE 7TH DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE PRESS RELEASE               CRIMINAL AND REGULATORY REFERRALS The House Select Investigative Panel has concluded its yearlong investigation and...
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