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Pro-Lifers: There Is No Flexibility on Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

  President Donald Trump seems to have underestimated the importance of the Hyde Amendment to the pro-life movement. But on taxpayer funding for abortion, pro-lifers are not budging. During a speech at the Kennedy Center, President Trump recently told Republicans that they...
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Puerto Rico Affirms the Personhood of the Unborn

  Puerto Rico recognized the personhood of unborn children last month in a heartening move that received little attention outside of pro-life circles. As Catholic site OSV News reports, the territory’s governor on Dec. 21 approved a law that “amends the Civil Code of Puerto...
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On Rape, Prolifers should Show Humility and Heroics

  When you Google “Battle of the Sexes” the first thing that comes up is references to the 1973 Billie Jean King–Bobby Riggs exhibition tennis match which was held at the Houston Astrodome. Televised internationally, the match was viewed by roughly fifty million people in...
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Patience and the Art of Dying

  The pro-life sensibility extends beyond the manifest beauty of a baby and the awesome realities of prenatal life. It extends beyond the intricate, sometimes self-sacrificing, and perduring interconnections of mother and child. Indeed, the pro-life sensibility extends...
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The Slide to Auschwitz

  In July the City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to petition...
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Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? A Symposium

  The Right That Makes Women Grieve George McKenna Every so often, if only to...
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Hijacking Immigration?

    The myth that human beings are “overpopulating” the earth, which has...
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What the Abortion Argument Is About

Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Britain’s best-known authors, a prolific writer...
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