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Pro-life Voters More Motivated Than Pro-Abortion Ones, Poll Finds

  A new poll suggests that citizens who support protections for preborn babies are more motivated than their pro-abortion peers. The results come from 19th News, which supports abortion, and polling company SurveyMonkey. The companies surveyed more than  20,000 adults in...
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The Surprisingly Controversial IVF Alternative Dividing Washington

  The following was first published on Oct. 16, 2025, by the Washington Examiner. Read the original here. __________________________________________________________________________________ It may seem like pronatalism is the province of the Right, but when it comes to...
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Pro-choice Stepford Wives

  The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American film, scripted by William Goldman and based on Ira Levin’s 1972 novel of the same name. Goldman also wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President’s Men (1976). Another of Levin’s novels was...
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The Tongue of the Taught

(This piece was originally posted on October 23, 2015.) __________________________________________________________________ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he...
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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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Abortion Looming in Ireland

When last I wrote for this publication, Ireland had been through a huge national and...
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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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