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Is Canada on the Verge of Newborn Euthanasia?

  A Canadian news item that likely passed under most Americans’ – including prolife Americans’ – radar was an August 25 statement by the Québec College of Physicians seeming to endorse euthanasia for newborns. The British tabloid The Daily Mail claimed the College reaffirmed...
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No Compassion for Men 

    The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece highlighting the rise in “men suing over their partners’ abortions.” The piece framed these lawsuits as mere ploys from the ‘anti-abortion movement’ to target abortion providers, suggesting that the male plaintiffs...
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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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The Tongue of the Taught

(This piece was originally posted on October 23, 2015.) __________________________________________________________________ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he...
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