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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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What a dialogue about abortion should look like

  A version of the following was printed in The Dove, a publication of Regis High School, where Raymond Sullivan is a senior. It’s election season: the time of year when candidates for office across the country come together to debate their opponents and explain their...
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A New Twist to the Meaning of Being Pro-life

  The conventional meaning of being “pro-life” is related to the abortion issue. Whereas abortion advocates identified themselves as being “pro-abortion” or “pro-choice,” those who opposed abortion responded by calling themselves “pro-life.” Being “anti-abortion” was a tag...
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   This past Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision revoking the “constitutional right” to abortion invented by Roe v. Wade. For those of us who want to see unborn children protected by law, Dobbs was a great...
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