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Maria Steen and the Irish Presidential Election

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Planned Parenthood Defunding Won’t Hurt Women, New Study Confirms

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Looking Beyond Disability—to Joy!

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How God Still Loves the World

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Human Life Foundation Co-Sponsors DC Pro-Life Alternatives Conference

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FDA Approves Generic Abortion Drug

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The 2025 Great Defender of Life Dinner honoring Dr. Christina Francis and Saluting Anne Conlon

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Simply Being the Church: Witness for Life

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Assassins" Code

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Abortion Pill Rebranded as ‘Period Pill’

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Monkey's Nephew

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It’s not a heartbeat; it’s ‘cardiac activity,’ says the New York Times

Would a “heartbeat” by any other name still be a heartbeat? The New York Times doesn’t think so. On Valentine’s Day, the newspaper published a straight news article decrying the use of the word “heartbeat” to describe fetal cardiac activity (otherwise known as, well, a...
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Women’s Health Protection Act would harm, not help, minority communities 

Abortion advocates argue that minorities need abortion The U.S. House of Representatives last fall passed the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that “prohibits governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, abortion services.”  Specifically, the bill provides...
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Requiem for Two Hypocrisies

  “Never again,” the world long repeated. The immolation of Jewry in the Shoah shall never again darken the name of humanity, we proclaimed . . . for decades. The word “genocide” was coined after the Holocaust to name the attempt to eradicate an entire group of human beings....
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“Life Must Not Be Played With”

    When I was a college undergraduate, I read Malcolm Muggeridge’s book Something Beautiful for God, a transcript of his remarkable BBC interview with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Muggeridge, a British journalist, author, and television personality, was not the...
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