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Planned Parenthood’s ‘Lack of Resources’ Endangers Women While Organization Spends Millions on Abortion Activism

  Planned Parenthood, an organization celebrated among the pro-abortion Left for “championing women’s rights,” is imploding its own narrative. Nationwide, clinics are sinking in lawsuits — and occasionally sewage. Even the New York Times admits as much. In a recent exposé on...
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NEWSWorthy: Media Get the Pro-Life Movement All Wrong

  The following originally appeared in the Washington Examiner, from which it has been reprinted with permission. Progressive outlet Mother Jones examined the supposed “splintering” of the pro-life movement in a recent article, prompted in part by an online spat between...
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   It’s Always Nice to Get a Letter

  It was early last March, the day after my Aunt Marie’s funeral. My cousin Amy and I were returning to our hotel after spending a few hours clearing out her mom’s apartment at the assisted living facility where she had lived. It’s always a big job, and Amy had set a modest...
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The Life of Chuck

  It’s hard to know what to do with a film that begins with the end of the universe. The Life of Chuck places us in a generic urban/suburban world where normal things are starting to unravel. In a traffic snarl, a schoolteacher (Marty) sees a billboard with the picture of an...
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