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NEWSworthy: The Hidden Pro-life Story of the 2024 Election

  On Election Day, voters in 10 states considered measures that directly, or indirectly, would incorporate a right to abortion in their state constitution. Seven of those measures passed; three were defeated. In the former category are five states — Colorado, Maryland,...
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NEWSworthy: Florida Defeats Pro-abortion Constitutional Amendment

  Floridians defeated a pro-abortion constitutional amendment that would have opened the door for killing preborn babies through all nine months of pregnancy. Tuesday’s vote also stood out as a positive sign of hope for the pro-life movement, which had suffered a handful of...
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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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AN OPEN LETTER: TO THE CARDINALS OF THE CONCLAVE FROM A PROTESTANT PASTOR

  Dear Cardinals: Easter Season grace and peace to you and yours. With the help of God the Father, who displayed glorious power and good providence in raising His Son Jesus Christ from the dead, you can approach your duty of electing the next pope not with anxiety, not with...
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