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California Spent At Least $75 Million On Abortions and Birth Control Since 2022

  California taxpayers have spent at least $75 million subsidizing abortions and birth control under special programs created after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. But the San Francisco Examiner reports the “Uncompensated Care Grant” program is running out of...
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Economist Claims Gendercide in Decline; Female Sex Selection Abortion May Be Falling

  The influential British journal The Economist recently reported good news: it claims that “gendercide” – abortions obtained because prenatal testing indicated the child was the “wrong” sex, is down.  In most instances, “wrong” sex = “girl.” If true, that’s certainly good...
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Smartest Mousie

  Charly is a 1968 sci-fi movie based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Daniel Keyes (which itself was based on the author’s 1958 short story “Flowers for Algernon.”) Charly Gordon is an intellectually disabled man, and Algernon is a laboratory mouse. Scientists have...
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Heavenly Sounds of Silence

  Robert Cardinal Sarah wrote a wonderful book, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, in which he reminds us that we need to escape from the tyranny of endless distractions produced by constant sound. We must learn how to place ourselves silently before...
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Hijacking Immigration?

    The myth that human beings are “overpopulating” the earth, which has...
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In a Basin Clearly

Friday, 6:00 p.m., September 30th. Three deliveries and two hours of sleep in the...
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Scheidler’s Supreme Victory

“Pro-life action news: Mark Wednesday, Feb. 26, in red letters because it is one big...
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Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? A Symposium

  The Right That Makes Women Grieve George McKenna Every so often, if only to...
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