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Pro-Abortion Advocates Argue Adoption Without Abortion Access is Coercive

  It is amazing how, in the effort to preserve abortion on demand, all reality must now be refracted through a pro-abortion lens. One enormous bit of disinformation being broadly circulated by the legacy media and political partisans of abortion is that pregnancy without the...
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NEWSworthy: Pro-Abortion News Outlet Claims Sepsis Increase Tied to Texas Abortion Law. There’s More to the Story

  Pro-abortion news outlet ProPublica claims Texas’ strong protections for preborn babies are tied to a reported increase in sepsis, but a statistical expert says there is more to the story. “Texas banned abortions. Then sepsis rates soared,” a February article state...
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Body and Soul

  Recently I attended a wedding in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The bride was the daughter of an old family friend. The beautiful young woman, radiant in her white wedding dress, used to be a curly-haired toddler with a Minnie Mouse doll always in her arms. The...
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How God Still Loves the World

  Saint Teresa of Calcutta is cited by Pope Leo XIV in his just published apostolic exhortation Dilexit te (“I have loved you”): Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, she dedicated her life to the dying abandoned on the streets of India. She gathered the rejected, washed...
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