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California Spent At Least $75 Million On Abortions and Birth Control Since 2022

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Chicago Teachers Union Leader Praises Abortion Access

    A Chicago Teachers Union leader says falling enrollment in public schools can be fixed with abortion. A ProPublica piece details how population decline in Chicago has left dozens of public schools way under capacity, threatening their existence. But the vice...
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Florida May Be Paving the Way for Eliminating Minor Abortions without Parental Consent

  When Roe v. Wade established abortion as a fundamental constitutional “right,” how the new “right” would interface with other rights was unclear. Over almost 50 years, the Supreme Court imposed its vision on society. One of the areas of conflict among “rights” involved...
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A Sign(ature) of Our Times

  My father had a signature to rival John Hancock’s. The “J” of his “John” was just as intricate and imposing as the well-known one on the Declaration of Independence. And the “f” in his “Caulfield” was a unique series of...
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Failures Real and Imagined 

   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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The Business of Family Planning

  The global contraceptives market was estimated to be $22 billion in 2016  and...
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Is the IRS Targeting Prolifers?

While it is clear that the IRS has targeted Tea Party groups for special...
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From the Editor: On Hijacking Immigration Uproar

As I write this, the Human Life Review is seeing an unprecedented amount of public...
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The Odd Couple: Freedom and Liberty

“My chief hope for the future is that the common people have not parted company with...
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