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Leo and the Label “Prolife”

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New York Governor Wants $65 Million For Abortionists, Planned Parenthood

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Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be

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Dasein ohne Leben (or “Existence without Life”): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest

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Judge Rejects Colorado’s Abortion Pill Reversal Ban

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The Goodness of Life, Even Unto Death

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Homily for the 2026 National Prayer Vigil for Life

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What’s really going on with abortion and the Supreme Court?

  Recent media headlines about the latest abortion cases could lead one to believe that state abortion laws require pregnant women to die in emergency rooms and that federal law requires “emergency abortions.” Both beliefs are wrong. These misleading headlines center on...
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Kamala Harris Suggests Abortion Bans to Blame for Maternal Mortality Rates

  Vice President Kamala Harris repeated a common pro-abortion talking point that laws against killing preborn babies are to blame for high maternal mortality rates. “The top ten states with the highest rates of maternal mortality all have abortion bans,” Harris said recently...
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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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A Just Man

    Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,...
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