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When All Is Lost: Dealing with Pro-Life Despair

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The Children We Are Asked to Forget

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With Pro-Abortion Speech Law, New Jersey’s War on Women Continues  

   New Jersey Governor Mike Sherrill signed a bill on Aug. 20 that many fear will be used to undermine the First Amendment and prohibit Americans from praying outside abortion facilities.    According to the Catholic News Agency, the bill will implement a sort of “bubble”...
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Surrogate Refuses to Abort Baby with Heart Defect, Saving His Life

  Surrogate mother McKenna West gave birth to baby boy Gabriel on Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the midst of a hurricane of legal battles. West was 20 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound revealed that Gabriel had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a serious heart condition that...
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The Mother of all Misdirects

  The trouble with the Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity defense is its vulnerability to partiality and yes, I’m talking about the Lindsay Clancy case. The idea of a mother strangling her kids to death is so awful, so against nature the only explanation is insanity. She must...
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Blessed Fulton Sheen, Pray for Us

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) will be beatified on September 24th at a Mass in St. Louis, Missouri. This is the next to final step in the process of canonization. The healing of a newborn infant, James Fulton Engstrom, who gave no sign of life for almost one hour,...
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The Ethics of Fetal Implants

In September 1987, an operation took place at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico...
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Why Roe/Casey Is Still Unsettled

In his first public criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v....
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President Obama and “Black Genocide”

Barack Obama has made history in two unprecedentedly dramatic ways: He is the first...
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Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

  THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a good...
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