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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to FDA Abortion Drug Approval

    The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, striking a blow for the pro-life cause. The court was unanimous in its decision, and the lawsuit was rejected on the grounds that the...
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Journal Rejects Pro-Life Article Because a White Male Wrote It

  An academic journal retracted an article arguing that “abortion restrictions are good for black women” because a white man wrote it. New Bioethics Editor Matthew James told author Perry Hendricks that extra “sensitivity” is needed when “white authors write about racial...
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Are We Afraid of Life?

  Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman’s new book What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice is an eye-opening study of the contemporary mindset that regards children today as at best useful goods and at worst positive bads. Published before the controversy over J.D....
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A Just Man

    Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,...
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