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Who Is Speaking Up for the Unborn?

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 14 that he had selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Given Kennedy’s history of supporting abortion, this nomination should concern pro-life advocates, argues Joe Carter, a...
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Wyoming Judge Finds ‘Right’ to Abortion in State Constitution

    A Wyoming judge has once again found a reason to block the state’s lifesaving laws. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens said the state constitution prohibits two laws in Wyoming, the Life Act and Medication Abortion Ban. Judge Owens read a “right” for a woman...
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Anti-Natalism: Old or New?

  On the morning of Saturday, May 17, a bomb went off outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. The bomber, a twenty-five-year-old man named Guy Edward Bartkus, was killed in the blast. Four other people were injured. News...
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A Pro-Life Field Hospital

    [This reflection was written and filed in the interregnum between Pope Francis’s death and Pope Leo XIV’s election.] ___________________________________________________________________________________   It has long been observed that the Church is not a museum...
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