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Mailed Abortion Pills and Victimization: Part 1—Abusers

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More Than a Clump of Cells

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YouTuber and Wife Face Backlash For Aborting Down Syndrome Baby

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Activist Judges Are Blocking Pro-Life Laws

    While the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision stopped activist federal judges from blocking pro-life laws, it could not stop state judges from doing the same. In many states, pro-life leaders and legislators are passing protections...
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Trump Moves to Expand IVF Access

  Infertility is a national dilemma, but the Trump administration’s answer to it is not one pro-lifers can fully get behind. President Donald Trump last week proposed a new rule for employers to provide stand-alone coverage for fertility benefits, aside from standard health...
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Mailed Abortion Pills and Victimization: Part 1—Abusers

  Rosalie Markezich loved working with children at her daycare job.1,2 According to documents uploaded by Louisiana Right to Life, she looked at the positive result of her pregnancy test and smiled. However, she was apprehensive about her boyfriend’s reaction. Should she...
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Faithful Reflections

More Than a Clump of Cells

    I beg the indulgence of my prolife readers as I navigate some twists of Christian theology to make a point about our shared affirmation of the personhood of the child in the womb. All Christians observe some form of celebration of “the Lord’s Supper,” what looks...
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What I Saw at the Abortion: The doctor observed, the man saw.

I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all...
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Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

  THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a good...
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Pro-Woman Messaging: The Strategy to Win the Mushy Middle

For more than four decades, pro-lifers have been characterized as advocates for the...
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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade (Fall, 2004)

  The infamous Roe v. Wade1 decision relies directly and indirectly on the work...
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