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Planned Parenthood of Illinois Closes Four Centers . . . That Don’t Offer Abortions

    Planned Parenthood of Illinois plans to close four of its facilities, but only locations that do not provide abortions. The abortion giant blamed an “uncertain patient care landscape,” according to WTTW. The news outlet also reported that Planned Parenthood has...
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NEWSworthy: The US Rejects ‘International Right to Abortion.’ Surrogacy Should Be Next

  The United States rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Jan. 24. What’s that, you ask?  The declaration is a statement, originally sponsored by the United States in 2020, that was eventually endorsed by 35-plus countries. Its signatories declare that they support...
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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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Teach Truthfully and Minister Mercifully

    Let’s be honest. Congregations, as well as their pastors and priests, are hesitant, even unwilling, to address abortion either publicly or from the pulpit. We are afraid that we might make somebody in the local church mad. Nevertheless, faithful ministry involves...
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