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The Mystery of the Cross

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Surrogate Refuses to Abort Baby with Heart Defect, Saving His Life

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Renting Wombs, Rending Hearts: The Dark Realities of Surrogacy

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Entrepreneur Bryan Johnson Makes a “Clone” to Delay Death

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RFAs: Making Christian Ethics and Common Sense Unconstitutional

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Massachusetts Officially Enshrines Abortion Up Till Birth

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Bill Targets Forced Abortions Through Surrogacy Contracts

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Massachusetts Officially Enshrines Abortion Up Till Birth

  Smiling proudly, the group of women surrounding Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey on Tuesday looked more like they were celebrating a birthday party than signing legislation. As Gov. Healey made her last pen stroke, the gaggle of women erupted in applause, some laughing...
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Bill Targets Forced Abortions Through Surrogacy Contracts

  Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee has reintroduced a bill that would prevent federal courts from enforcing contract provisions that force surrogate mothers to obtain an abortion. The Preventing Forced Abortions Act of 2026 would also ensure that surrogate mothers...
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Mothers of the Murdered

  A woman named Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts for murdering her three small children. The question is not whether she did it. The question is what her state of mind was when she strangled them to death, whether she is truly culpable for her actions. From there,...
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The Mystery of the Cross

  In the year 1219, Pope Honorius III gave the Roman basilica of Santa Sabina on the crown of the Aventine hill to Saint Dominic, to be a church of the Order that Dominic had founded—as it remains today, the Dominican “mother church” in Rome. S. Sabina was built in the...
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What I Saw at the Abortion: The doctor observed, the man saw.

I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all...
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BOOKNOTES: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS

  WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS O. Carter...
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President Obama and “Black Genocide”

Barack Obama has made history in two unprecedentedly dramatic ways: He is the first...
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The Business of Family Planning

  The global contraceptives market was estimated to be $22 billion in 2016  and...
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