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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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Study: Most women don’t want abortion

    Pro-abortion advocates like to frame their position as “pro-choice,” as if women can easily decide whether or not they want to have an abortion. But for many women who go through with abortion, the decision wasn’t really their choice at all, according to a new...
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Progress, a Blue Wall, Swing States, and the Pillar of Civil Rights

    In the year since the Dobbs decision, the battle over protecting unborn children has become a state-by-state issue. Tremendous progress has been made. But it is going to be much more difficult to make further gains. To understand why, we have to look at the map and...
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“Tell the Truth!”

  In the hopeful spring of 1990, soon after the Berlin Wall had fallen and as freedom-seeking crowds of Eastern Europeans were kicking in the rotten doors of a crumbling Soviet empire, one of the great figures of the dawning decade stood by the Washington Monument looking...
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Addressing Abortion in the Sanctuary

    Most pastors and most priests seldom speak about abortion from the pulpit during the weekly worship service.  Why are pastors and priests so reluctant to talk about this matter in the sanctuary?  Fear.  We are afraid that if we address abortion a woman of whatever age...
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