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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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A Tragedy in Georgia Needs a Federal Response

  This article was originally posted March 27, 2026, on Ed Mechmann’s public policy blog, Stepping Out of the Boat.   Every abortion is a tragedy. But the irresponsible and illegal availability of abortion drugs by mail makes things so much worse. A recent incident in...
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  I recently read news about a British woman named Wendy Duffy, who died in April at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. Duffy’s son, Marcus, passed away some four years ago in a freak accident at their home. Since then, Duffy said, she has wanted to join him in...
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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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President Obama and “Black Genocide”

Barack Obama has made history in two unprecedentedly dramatic ways: He is the first...
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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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The Ethics of Fetal Implants

In September 1987, an operation took place at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico...
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Should We “Harvest” Fetal Tissue?

Last summer, a medical ethicist received an unusual phone call from a woman whose...
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