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Pro-Abortion Advocates Argue Adoption Without Abortion Access is Coercive

  It is amazing how, in the effort to preserve abortion on demand, all reality must now be refracted through a pro-abortion lens. One enormous bit of disinformation being broadly circulated by the legacy media and political partisans of abortion is that pregnancy without the...
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  A long time ago, when I attended community college, I’d show up for classes I liked and either drop or take “incompletes” for those I didn’t. Later, I drifted over to State U, where, bolstered by stupidity and pride, I tried to fashion a degree program unaligned with...
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