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Michigan Legislator Sterilizes Herself to Avoid Pregnancy in State Where Abortion Legal Up to Birth

    Michigan state Representative Laurie Pohutsky woke up and decided that something needed to be done. Her home state of Michigan, where the recently passed Proposition 3 enshrined abortion up to birth for any reason and even for minors, suddenly felt unsafe for a...
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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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How To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

  When Jesus, asked about inheriting eternal life, affirmed the need for the Great Commandment to love God before all things and your neighbor as yourself, the expert in Jewish law (“wishing to justify himself”) then asked, “And who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:25-29). Jesus...
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  This essay first appeared in Pins in the Liberal Balloon, a 1990 collection of essays from Fr. Canavan. ____________________________________________________________________________ The face of the earth has changed over the centuries and is changing more radically in the...
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