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Pro-Life Advocates Celebrate Major Victory with EMTALA Guidance 

  The Trump administration recently rescinded the Biden administration’s misguided interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, EMTALA. Pro-abortion advocates framed this move as an assault on women’s health and safety, while pro-life advocates...
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Netflix Show ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Depicts Abortion As Just Another Choice

  Viewers of Ginny & Georgia, Netflix’s soapy TV show about a young mom and her teenage daughter, likely aren’t watching the show for anything profound. But it’s too bad that despite its subtle pro-life premise — after a teenage pregnancy, Georgia begins the show as a...
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The Other AI

  Long before Pope Leo XIV spoke of the mixed blessings of artificial intelligence and was named by Time a Top 100 figure on the hot topic, the Catholic Church had expounded on another AI, i.e., artificial insemination. The two AIs have more in common than might seem at...
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Overcoming the World

  In a recent address to French Catholic political leaders gathered in Rome for the Holy Year, Pope Leo spoke of the weighty challenges they face in our often hostile world: I am well aware that the openly Christian commitment of a public official is not easy, especially in...
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