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Former Disney Star Olivia Rodrigo Funds Abortion with Concert Tour

On tour for her latest album, GUTS, Rodrigo also gave out morning-after pills and condoms to concertgoers in St. Louis this week. In a play on her song “bad idea right?” a flier paired with the emergency contraceptives reads, “Funding abortion? It’s a good idea, right?
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Walgreens and CVS Will Soon Hand out Abortion Drugs

Biden thanked the pharmacies for making it easier for women to get abortion drugs.
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The Taming of the Ultrasound

  Forty years ago, Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s documentary film, The Silent Scream, promised/threatened to redefine the discussion of abortion. While Leenart Nilsson’s 1965 Life magazine photo essay had pulled back the uterine veil, Silent Scream, using ultrasound images,...
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Visitation and Power

  On the Sunday before Christmas, many Christians will hear an excerpt from the “Visitation” of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-56). The story climbs the heights of pro-life philosophy, so I quote a portion here: Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste...
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