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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

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It's Always Nice to Get a Letter

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Seen but Not Heard

BLOG: Peter Pavia

The Billion-Footed Beast and I

Pastoral Reflections: Fr. David Poecking

No Empire beyond the Seas

NEWSworthy: Matt Lamb

Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

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Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

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BLOG: Brian Caulfield

How To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

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Challenging the Church on Abortion

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Thoughts on Baby Thaddeus

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State Constitutions and Abortion Rights

    When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, they returned the battle over abortion rights to the states. Since then, there has been a lot of activity in state legislatures either to expand or restrict abortion. Some state laws that pre-dated Roe, or which were...
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Minnesota passes one of nation’s most permissive abortion laws

  Minnesota just passed one of the nation’s most permissive abortion laws when its Democratic governor signed the bill on Tuesday. In the state Senate, the Protect Reproductive Options Act passed along party lines on Saturday after 15 hours of debate, with Democrats...
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 “April Is the Cruellest Month”

    So, how’s your spring going? Chill, snow, nor’easter rain enough for Noah? Hope you don’t need to go to Baltimore, with the Key Bridge collapse adding to the usual disarray caused by high urban crime rates. Maybe you were among the 73 million AT&T customers whose...
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Pastoral Reflections

Sing Her to Sleep

    The gentle summer day my friend made her journey from home to hospice was marked by a little parade of loved ones. As the medics carried her to the ambulance, her sisters, husband, and daughter filed out into the sunshine behind her, and for reasons I cannot...
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