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Pro-life Groups Can’t be Forced to Accommodate Abortions, Federal Judge Rules

  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot force pro-life groups to accommodate abortions, a federal judge ruled. Under the Biden Administration, the EEOC issued regulations that required employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for employees seeking...
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Yonkers Woman Learns Abortion is Not the ‘Quick Fix’ She Thought 

  A New York woman filed a lawsuit last month alleging that she aborted her nearly 20-week-old unborn child after paternity results incorrectly claimed the child was not her fiance’s. This tragic story reveals much about women and the current state of abortion in Americ...
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How the Church Can Be the Village

  America’s twin epidemics of isolation and low birth rates intersect in the heartbreaking experience of new mothers in America. In my short time as a mom (we have two toddlers and another child on the way), I have spoken with women at libraries, pregnancy centers, churches,...
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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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Fatal Tissue: The Horror and the Lure

The history of the natural sciences has two themes, one, the formation of their...
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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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BOOKNOTES: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS

  WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN: THE CASE FOR THE BODY IN PUBLIC BIOETHICS O. Carter...
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