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The Tragic Story of ‘Jane Doe’ Highlights Abortion Dangers

    Women are facing life-threatening situations nationwide due to medical malpractice and abortion organizations that prioritize profit over patients. Sadly, polling indicates that many of these same victims would have preferred to parent anyway. Just look at the...
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Pro-Abortion Advocates Argue Adoption Without Abortion Access is Coercive

  It is amazing how, in the effort to preserve abortion on demand, all reality must now be refracted through a pro-abortion lens. One enormous bit of disinformation being broadly circulated by the legacy media and political partisans of abortion is that pregnancy without the...
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My Cardinal to the End

  [This article appeared in a slightly shorter form in First Things on May 3, 2010, ten years after the death of Cardinal John O’Connor. It is reprinted here, with the magazine’s permission,  to mark the 25th anniversary of the beloved Cardinal’s passing.] I first got to...
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An Ordinary Person

  C. S. Lewis, a character in his own story, saw her approaching from afar. She was radiant. Leading her were bright angels, joyous children, and musicians. Multitudes of animals followed after. It was a great procession coming down from the high country. Lewis thought he was...
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