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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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Michigan Legislator Sterilizes Herself to Avoid Pregnancy in State Where Abortion Legal Up to Birth

    Michigan state Representative Laurie Pohutsky woke up and decided that something needed to be done. Her home state of Michigan, where the recently passed Proposition 3 enshrined abortion up to birth for any reason and even for minors, suddenly felt unsafe for a...
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  Prolifers care about babies in the womb, of course. That’s part of what being pro-life is all about. But there’s something you notice when you spend time in the pro-life movement: Pro-life people are good at what comes after birth, too. So many of the prolifers I know are...
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A Pro-Life Field Hospital

    [This reflection was written and filed in the interregnum between Pope Francis’s death and Pope Leo XIV’s election.] ___________________________________________________________________________________   It has long been observed that the Church is not a museum...
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