NEWSworthy: Pro-Abortion News Outlet Claims Sepsis Increase Tied to Texas Abortion Law. There’s More to the Story

  Pro-abortion news outlet ProPublica claims Texas’ strong protections for preborn babies are tied to a reported increase in sepsis, but a statistical expert says there is more to the story. “Texas banned abortions. Then sepsis rates soared,” a February article state...
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 Political Stability in Europe? Hello Italy!

  The major countries of Europe (and even Japan and Canada) have been experiencing much political instability, including election results that have lacked clarity. France had four prime ministers in 2024, one of whom lasted only 91 days, and snap elections last summer...
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NEWSWorthy: Media Get the Pro-Life Movement All Wrong

  The following originally appeared in the Washington Examiner, from which it has been reprinted with permission. Progressive outlet Mother Jones examined the supposed “splintering” of the pro-life movement in a recent article, prompted in part by an online spat between...
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Eugenics Then and Now

  I have been reading Linda Royall’s 2023 book Sacrifice, in which the investigative journalist details Margaret Sanger’s deep and revolting entanglements with eugenics, racism, Nazi ideology, and population control. Royall also explains how Sanger biographer (and devoted...
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NEWSWorthy: Congressional Bill Would Protect Preborn Babies from Abortion under 14th Amendment

  Babies would be recognized as full human beings worthy of protection under a pending congressional bill from Missouri Republican Eric Burlison. Rep. Burlison recently introduced the “Life at Conception Act” along with 68 cosponsors and the backing of pro-life groups. The...
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The Gangs of Constantinople

  Factionalism and division, partisanship and parties. Sides. Teams. Colors. The conflict reverberating in those words harkens back, like many of the darker expressions of our humanity, to the Roman Empire—and the racetrack. Horse racing was an integral part of Roman culture...
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Over the Counter Counterintuitive

  I am an apartment dweller in New York City. My building endured a long and strange chapter during which the landlord sent up so much heat that even with the radiator turned off tenants had to keep the windows open in a blizzard. Some of us ran air conditioners all winter....
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Baseball for All

  Just when the nation seems to be teetering on the edge of political and cultural inanity, with one side defending what the other seeks to undo, there comes bipartisan news: Pitchers and catchers are warming up at baseball training camps in Florida and Arizona. Though it...
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Saved But Not Yet Safe

  I recently read Carmen Joy Imes’s Bearing God’s Name, an accessible, albeit somewhat academic meditation on the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. This is just my sort of thing, both meditative and intellectual, biblical and gentle. During the course of the book, Imes...
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NEWSworthy: The US Rejects ‘International Right to Abortion.’ Surrogacy Should Be Next

  The United States rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Jan. 24. What’s that, you ask?  The declaration is a statement, originally sponsored by the United States in 2020, that was eventually endorsed by 35-plus countries. Its signatories declare that they support...
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