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Near Tragedy in Texas Highlights Importance of Safe Haven Laws

A teenage mother in Houston recently put her newborn baby boy in a trash bag, tied it closed, and tossed him in a dumpster in the Texas July heat. Fortunately, a passerby heard the baby’s cries and summoned help. The event is shocking. A young mother left her own baby for dead in...
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Planned Parenthood offers free vasectomies, abortions at DNC

    The Democratic National Convention started on Monday with a bang, with activists dressing up as abortion pills and Planned Parenthood offering free vasectomies and abortion medication. A local affiliate of the abortion giant has set up a mobile health center in...
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My Cardinal to the End

  [This article appeared in a slightly shorter form in First Things on May 3, 2010, ten years after the death of Cardinal John O’Connor. It is reprinted here, with the magazine’s permission,  to mark the 25th anniversary of the beloved Cardinal’s passing.] I first got to...
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The Prodigal Son and “Love Them Both”

  “Love them both”—I have long appreciated the way this pro-life slogan acknowledges the sincerity in pro-choice expressions of concern for women’s welfare while inviting everyone to consider the humanity of the child as a subject of our love. When I input the slogan, my...
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