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A Dystopian Nightmare: Chemical Abortion Pills Enable Abusers

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Seen but Not Heard

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The Billion-Footed Beast and I

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No Empire beyond the Seas

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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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How To Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

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Challenging the Church on Abortion

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The Dangers of Abortion Pill Expansion

  Four states — California, Massachusetts, New Jersey,  and New York — are now petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to relax restrictions on abortion pills. As the FDA reevaluates its guidance on abortion pills and states such as Illinois push to keep them readily...
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 Maryland sets up $25 million abortion fund with Obamacare dollars

    Maryland will subsidize abortions using a surcharge on its Affordable Care Act insurance funds. Democratic Governor Wes Moore signed legislation directing $25 million “to fund a program to pay for abortions,” according to the Associated Press. The money for the...
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A Sign(ature) of Our Times

  My father had a signature to rival John Hancock’s. The “J” of his “John” was just as intricate and imposing as the well-known one on the Declaration of Independence. And the “f” in his “Caulfield” was a unique series of...
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Pastoral Reflections

Failures Real and Imagined 

   This past Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision revoking the “constitutional right” to abortion invented by Roe v. Wade. For those of us who want to see unborn children protected by law, Dobbs was a great...
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