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Pro-Abortion Advocates Argue Adoption Without Abortion Access is Coercive

  It is amazing how, in the effort to preserve abortion on demand, all reality must now be refracted through a pro-abortion lens. One enormous bit of disinformation being broadly circulated by the legacy media and political partisans of abortion is that pregnancy without the...
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NEWSworthy: Pro-Abortion News Outlet Claims Sepsis Increase Tied to Texas Abortion Law. There’s More to the Story

  Pro-abortion news outlet ProPublica claims Texas’ strong protections for preborn babies are tied to a reported increase in sepsis, but a statistical expert says there is more to the story. “Texas banned abortions. Then sepsis rates soared,” a February article state...
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My Cardinal to the End

  [This article appeared in a slightly shorter form in First Things on May 3, 2010, ten years after the death of Cardinal John O’Connor. It is reprinted here, with the magazine’s permission,  to mark the 25th anniversary of the beloved Cardinal’s passing.] I first got to...
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AN OPEN LETTER: TO THE CARDINALS OF THE CONCLAVE FROM A PROTESTANT PASTOR

  Dear Cardinals: Easter Season grace and peace to you and yours. With the help of God the Father, who displayed glorious power and good providence in raising His Son Jesus Christ from the dead, you can approach your duty of electing the next pope not with anxiety, not with...
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Forty Years after Roe: Onward We March

   “No issue in U.S. history has produced such an impressive and sustained outpouring...
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