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Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood

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Report: “The Abortion Pill Harms Women”

  Just how dangerous is the abortion pill? Pro-lifers have long argued that in addition to ending a life, mifepristone is also dangerous for women and often leaves them suffering alone or rushing to the hospital after an at-home chemical abortion. Now, as groups pressure FDA...
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New York Pushes Asissted Suicide

The following is a reprint from Ed Mechmann’s blog, “Stepping Out of the Boat,” from April 28. Reprinted with permission. Sadly, the New York State Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act yesterday, April 29th. It now goes to the Senate.   New York has...
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Rape Is a Pro-life Issue

  Rape is the third rail in both the pro-life and pro-choice camps, but for different reasons. For prolifers life begins at conception, and since this includes embryos created during IVF procedures, certainly a child conceived by rape has the same right to life. But...
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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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Is the IRS Targeting Prolifers?

While it is clear that the IRS has targeted Tea Party groups for special...
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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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Active and Passive Euthanasia

  Because of recent advances in medical technology, it is today possible to save...
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Should We “Harvest” Fetal Tissue?

Last summer, a medical ethicist received an unusual phone call from a woman whose...
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