Can We Have a Little Privacy Here?

  Since the Supreme Court could not find an explicit right to abortion in the Constitution to support their Roe v. Wade decision, they claimed instead that a “right to privacy” was implied in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars the state from...
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Pope Picks Flix Mix

  One of the most searched persons online this year, and apparently one of the best dressed, is not a typical celebrity and has, we recently learned, rather ordinary, even traditional, tastes in movies and fashion. Yes, I am referring to Leo XIV, the first American pope, who...
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NEWSworthy: Gwen Stefani Criticized for Promoting Christian Prayer App Because It Doesn’t Promote Abortion

  Few things are as priceless as American celebrities remembering that Christian values actually mean something. Several celebrities learned this the hard way last week when “A Bit Fruity” podcast host Matt Bernstein mocked Catholic pop singer Gwen Stefani for promoting the...
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Turn Out to Be Jewelry

  Blossom Keepsakes is a custom jewelry company that creates “heirlooms” from “unused IVF [in vitro fertilization] embryos.”  Claiming “a deep respect for life and the incredible journey families take to create it,” they take excess embryos consigned to them from your in...
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NEWSworthy: Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Pregnancy Center Free Speech Case

  Finally, some good news! The Supreme Court seems poised to rule in favor of New Jersey pregnancy centers in a case that would set important precedent not just for the First Amendment, but also for pro-life organizations seeking to secure funding without exposing their...
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Home Alone

  Home Alone, the 1990 John Hughes blockbuster, has become a perennial Christmas favorite. Other American “Christmas movies” of post-modern vintage, for example Die Hard (1988) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), apart from a surface-smattering of tinsel and...
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Prolife Karma & Grace

  Students of religion often characterize the Hindu principle of karma and the Christian principle of grace as opposites, but this is not strictly the case. And both can serve as compatible motivations for the pro-life cause. Consider karma, a type of retributive justice....
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Two Takes on the Fate of the Penny

“A Penny for Your Thoughts” Brian Caulfield   With the death of the penny, another traditional saying falls by the wayside. But the upside is that our thoughts may now be worth a nickel or more. Yet, with the expected inflation of our coinage—$9.99 sales will be...
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Pro-choice Stepford Wives

  The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American film, scripted by William Goldman and based on Ira Levin’s 1972 novel of the same name. Goldman also wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President’s Men (1976). Another of Levin’s novels was...
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God Is Not Stingy

  A certain Catholic nun, whose name we need not divulge, has drawn upon theology to buttress her pro-choice philosophy. She argues that since God gave her the gift of choosing, she should use that gift. Therefore, in being pro-choice, she is cooperating with God. God,...
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