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NEWSworthy: Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Pregnancy Center Free Speech Case

  Finally, some good news! The Supreme Court seems poised to rule in favor of New Jersey pregnancy centers in a case that would set important precedent not just for the First Amendment, but also for pro-life organizations seeking to secure funding without exposing their...
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Satanic Temple Loses Lawsuit Against Idaho’s Pro-Life Law

  Idaho’s law protecting preborn babies from abortions does not turn women into “slaves” or violate their religious liberty, a federal judge affirmed recently. The Satanic Temple brought a lawsuit against the state’s pro-life law based on farfetched legal theories that it...
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Jane Austen at 250

  The following first appeared in the Irish publication Position Papers (positionpapers.ie) on December 1, 2025. It is reprinted here with permission.   It is a truth not (yet) universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a large grievance must be in want of...
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Prolife Karma & Grace

  Students of religion often characterize the Hindu principle of karma and the Christian principle of grace as opposites, but this is not strictly the case. And both can serve as compatible motivations for the pro-life cause. Consider karma, a type of retributive justice....
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Fatal Tissue: The Horror and the Lure

The history of the natural sciences has two themes, one, the formation of their...
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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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What the Abortion Argument Is About

Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Britain’s best-known authors, a prolific writer...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

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