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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

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Seen but Not Heard

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The Billion-Footed Beast and I

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No Empire beyond the Seas

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Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

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Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

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How To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

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Challenging the Church on Abortion

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Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood

  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled  May 11 (U.S. Mother’s Day) that motherhood by surrogacy trumps motherhood by genetics in terms of “legal parentage.” Baby Sophia was produced through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and born in 2022.  She was born to a surrogate mother and her...
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Pro-life Groups Can’t be Forced to Accommodate Abortions, Federal Judge Rules

  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot force pro-life groups to accommodate abortions, a federal judge ruled. Under the Biden Administration, the EEOC issued regulations that required employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for employees seeking...
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Damned If You Don’t, Damned If You Do

  Women can’t catch a break in the sexual code department. When I was a girl in the early 60s the protocol was that it was up to us to control romantic encounters because teenage boys could not; their urge was so strong they couldn’t be expected to curb themselves, so we had...
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Pastoral Reflections

The Gift of Age

    The room is not quite big enough for everyone who has come. In her reclining chair, the 95-year-old woman takes it all in, with smiles. Her hearing is spotty, her eyesight rather darkened, and her walker ever close to hand. But she is full of delight, for gathered around...
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