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Pro-Abortion Doctor Admits Women Haven’t Been Harmed By Roe v. Wade Reversal

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Expert Debunks Claim Abortion Bans Led to Higher ‘Suicidality’ Among Teen Girls

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Colorado Teen Dies From Planned Parenthood Abortion. Media Is Mum 

  A Colorado teen died after undergoing an abortion through Planned Parenthood, though the media and local officials have tried to bury the story. “Eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello died after undergoing an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2025,”...
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Columnist Claims Biden Wasn’t Pro-Abortion Enough

  Was Joe Biden insufficiently pro-abortion? That would seem to be Carlos Lozado’s conclusion about the former president.  Writing in the New York Times last week, he suggests Democrats lost the presidency in 2024 because they were stuck with Biden, who was not pro-abortion...
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Setting the Bar

  The idiomatic expressions “lowering the bar” and its opposite “raising the bar” have their modern-day roots in pole vaulting competitions—although it’s unlikely many of us find our inner dictionaries turning to that reference page, so ingrained is that phrase in our minds...
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The Cries of a Newborn

  Locke is a film from a dozen years ago, a minor classic. It is also a life-affirming surprise. The film opens with Locke (Tom Hardy) getting into his BMW at the end of a day of work. In the dark he sets out for London, a two hour drive, rather than his home where his wife...
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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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