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Iowa House Speaker Promotes Focus on ‘Alternatives’ over Further Protections for the Preborn

  Iowa’s House speaker is suffering from a bad case of either/or syndrome. He recently suggested that helping women choose life should come ahead of legal protections for preborn babies in the Hawkeye State, rather than supporting both types of legislation with equal focu...
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Ohio Abortion Lobby Doesn’t Want Women To Be Told Baby Has a Heartbeat

  Women should not be told when their preborn babies have a heartbeat, according to abortion activists in Ohio. The abortion industry wants to see a state law that requires doctors to tell women about a baby’s heartbeat struck down, following the passage of a constitutional...
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  My father had a signature to rival John Hancock’s. The “J” of his “John” was just as intricate and imposing as the well-known one on the Declaration of Independence. And the “f” in his “Caulfield” was a unique series of...
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Reflection for Pentecost

  Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them. (John 20:22-23) The scene of our Lord’s first resurrection appearance to the disciples, when all of them are together, from the Gospel of John, is sometimes called “St. John’s Pentecost.” John doesn’t give the...
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