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Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

  A federal court case recently affirmed that the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment is not a part of the Constitution, despite last-second claims by President Joe Biden. The acknowledgement came when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a...
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Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

    A Virginia high school is investigating claims that staffers helped facilitate abortions for two teen girls without their parents’ knowledge. Fairfax County Schools launched the investigation following media reporting on the controversy. However, the whistleblower...
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   It’s Always Nice to Get a Letter

  It was early last March, the day after my Aunt Marie’s funeral. My cousin Amy and I were returning to our hotel after spending a few hours clearing out her mom’s apartment at the assisted living facility where she had lived. It’s always a big job, and Amy had set a modest...
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Overcoming the World

  In a recent address to French Catholic political leaders gathered in Rome for the Holy Year, Pope Leo spoke of the weighty challenges they face in our often hostile world: I am well aware that the openly Christian commitment of a public official is not easy, especially in...
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Why Roe/Casey Is Still Unsettled

In his first public criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v....
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The Business of Family Planning

  The global contraceptives market was estimated to be $22 billion in 2016  and...
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Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

  THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a good...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

   “No issue in U.S. history has produced such an impressive and sustained outpouring...
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