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Pro-Lifers: There Is No Flexibility on Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

  President Donald Trump seems to have underestimated the importance of the Hyde Amendment to the pro-life movement. But on taxpayer funding for abortion, pro-lifers are not budging. During a speech at the Kennedy Center, President Trump recently told Republicans that they...
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Puerto Rico Affirms the Personhood of the Unborn

  Puerto Rico recognized the personhood of unborn children last month in a heartening move that received little attention outside of pro-life circles. As Catholic site OSV News reports, the territory’s governor on Dec. 21 approved a law that “amends the Civil Code of Puerto...
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Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be

  In July 1997, a married couple in Oldenburg, Germany discovered in the twentieth week of the wife’s pregnancy that the child the woman was carrying had Down syndrome. The woman was in her twenty-fifth week of pregnancy when she underwent a saline abortion. In order to...
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Leo and the Label “Prolife”

  Like you, I’ve heard my share of sophomoric pro-choice jibes. “If only prolifers were concerned about children after they’re born!” Or, “If you were really prolife you’d be protesting the death penalty!” You, the reader, likely know many prolifers who labor diligently on...
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Hijacking Immigration?

    The myth that human beings are “overpopulating” the earth, which has...
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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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The Business of Family Planning

  The global contraceptives market was estimated to be $22 billion in 2016  and...
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The Slide to Auschwitz

  In July the City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to petition...
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