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Teens Are Buying Abortion Drugs Online, Underscoring Need For Restrictions

  Teens are buying abortion drugs online without their parents’ knowledge, a new study admits. Written by pro-abortion Aid Access founder Rebecca Gomperts and two scholars, the study looks at “requests made to a high-volume online medication abortion telemedicine service.”...
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State Litigation Seeks to Curb Mail-Order Abortion

  Pro-life advocates have spent years combatting the rising surge of chemical abortion drugs, which now make up over 60% of abortions in the United States. Admirable efforts have been made to expose the dangers of the pill, as well as the consequences that mail-order...
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  I would like to ask students the following question: “In the interest of equality, do you think that pilots and passengers should take turns in flying the plane”?  “No,” I would expect them to say, because an untrained passenger would expose everyone on the aircraft to...
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The Ascension of Jesus

  Later this week, Catholics and many Protestants will celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, and you may hear these readings from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians: May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know … what is the surpassing greatness of [God’s]...
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Why Roe/Casey Is Still Unsettled

In his first public criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v....
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Active and Passive Euthanasia

  Because of recent advances in medical technology, it is today possible to save...
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The Odd Couple: Freedom and Liberty

“My chief hope for the future is that the common people have not parted company with...
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What the Abortion Argument Is About

Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Britain’s best-known authors, a prolific writer...
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