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Hundreds of Aborted Babies Could Be Denied Burial If New York City Changes This Rule

    Second-trimester aborted babies could soon be denied a proper burial if New York City implements a pending regulation. The NYC Department of Health appears still to be considering changing its regulations surrounding aborted babies. Babies aborted at “24 or more weeks of...
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Did pro-choice lies kill Amber Thurman?

  The following is a reprint of Timothy P. Carney’s column in the Washington Examiner on Sept. 20, 2024.   A woman in Georgia got a legal abortion, and it killed her.  If this isn’t how you understand the tragic death of Amber Thurman, that’s because you have been...
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  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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