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Even Abortion Advocates Are Tired of Chemical Abortion Lies  

  As the debate over chemical abortion and its accessibility rages on, a new poll is showing that most American voters support stronger restrictions on the dangerous drugs. A recent poll by McLaughlin & Associates discovered that 70% of American voters support...
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Wisconsin Bill Would Clarify Miscarriage Is Different From Abortion

Republican lawmakers are considering a proposal to clarify that medical professionals can remove a miscarried baby without violating state abortion law. The bill would amend state law “to except from the definition of abortion a physician’s performance of a medical procedure or...
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Can We Have a Little Privacy Here?

  Since the Supreme Court could not find an explicit right to abortion in the Constitution to support their Roe v. Wade decision, they claimed instead that a “right to privacy” was implied in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars the state from...
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Film Life

  Over the past few years, I have occasionally written in this space about films in which we see the persistence of pro-life concerns. These are worth noting, for the film industry, like most of our high culture, subsists within a largely progressive environment. My view is...
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Pro-Woman Messaging: The Strategy to Win the Mushy Middle

For more than four decades, pro-lifers have been characterized as advocates for the...
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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 Ethics of Fetal Implants

In September 1987, an operation took place at the La Raza Medical Center in Mexico...
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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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