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Despite Attacks, Pregnancy Resource Centers Help Moms Like Me

    A Massachusetts pregnancy resource center helped my son Sam, and me start on a successful path, and it has been so disheartening to see the same center that helped us now attacked and discredited by Massachusetts politicians. This summer, Massachusetts Governor...
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Abortions in Indiana Have Plummeted, but There Is More Work To Do

  Do abortion bans really work to curb abortion? Advocates of abortion like to argue that they do not, but recent numbers out of Indiana, which has a near-total abortion ban, are promising. There were just 72 abortions reported in Indiana in the first half of the year,...
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Notes on Pro-Choice Disinformation 

  Pro-choicers claim that “science does not know when life begins.” The conceptus, they say, is “a parasite or a tumor,” or “a potential life, part of the woman’s body.” This is not true. The term “fertilized egg” is shorthand for a single-celled human being that has a sex...
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Makers of Men

    You may have heard that President Trump recently pardoned several prolifers who were arrested and jailed for peacefully praying/protesting at abortion clinics. Kayleigh McEnany of Fox News interviewed three of them: Paulette Harlow (who was accompanied on set by her...
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