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Renting Wombs, Rending Hearts: The Dark Realities of Surrogacy

NEWSworthy: Madeline Fry Schultz

Entrepreneur Bryan Johnson Makes a “Clone” to Delay Death

Faithful Reflections: Robert Marshall

RFAs: Making Christian Ethics and Common Sense Unconstitutional

NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O'Hara

Massachusetts Officially Enshrines Abortion Up Till Birth

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NEWSworthy: Anita Blanchard

Bill Targets Forced Abortions Through Surrogacy Contracts

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Choosing Choice

FAITHFUL REFLECTIONS: Fr. Gerald Murray

Seeing God's Hand in All Things

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‘Brain Death’ at the DMV

FAITHFUL REFLECTIONS: Peter Pavia

By Any Other Name

NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O'Hara

Massachusetts Abortion Bill Trojan Horse for Abortion Extremism

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Lawfare Against the Innocent

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Heartbeat International on Trial for Spreading Truth

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2024’s Prolife Marching Orders

  This year’s March for Life—the 50th—occurs Friday. Half a century ago, attorney Nellie Gray was convinced the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade could not go by unmarked by prolife protest. On a shoestring budget, a wing and a prayer, she assembled the first March January...
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Gretchen Whitmer ensures there will be no survivors in the war on human life

  Under Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan has sought to repeal every pro-life protection on the books. Michigan now allows for abortion up until the moment of birth following a referendum vote and legislation signed by Whitmer. Now, the governor has signed...
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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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Faithful Reflections

“God first, me Second”

  Ash Wednesday is nearly upon us, the beginning of Lent. The imposition of ashes of burnt palm branches on our foreheads calls to mind the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. In his honor, the people laid out palm branches along the road that took Jesus, riding on a...
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