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Democratic Senate Candidate James Talarico Wants Christians To Support Abortion

  Christians can support the intentional destruction of innocent preborn babies in the womb—at least that is what the Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate candidate in Texas thinks. State representative James Talarico recently defeated congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the Texas...
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Struggling Financially, Planned Parenthood Now Offers Vasectomies and Botox

Thanks to funding cuts, Planned Parenthood isn’t doing so well financially. Locations across the country are hoping that offering new and seemingly inoffensive procedures will help fill the gaps. Planned Parenthood of Michigan recently announced that it will b...
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Of New Things and of Equine Endeavors

  One frigid afternoon not long ago, I stood overlooking the paddock at the Aqueduct racetrack, doing my best to evaluate the entries in the upcoming contest; it was an event for younger horses who had never won a race, or maidens. A couple of them were going out for the...
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The Logic of Abortion

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all...
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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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Should We “Harvest” Fetal Tissue?

Last summer, a medical ethicist received an unusual phone call from a woman whose...
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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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What I Saw at the Abortion: The doctor observed, the man saw.

I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all...
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