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Israeli Supreme Court Minimizes Biological Parenthood

  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled  May 11 (U.S. Mother’s Day) that motherhood by surrogacy trumps motherhood by genetics in terms of “legal parentage.” Baby Sophia was produced through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and born in 2022.  She was born to a surrogate mother and her...
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Pro-life Groups Can’t be Forced to Accommodate Abortions, Federal Judge Rules

  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot force pro-life groups to accommodate abortions, a federal judge ruled. Under the Biden Administration, the EEOC issued regulations that required employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for employees seeking...
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How the Church Can Be the Village

  America’s twin epidemics of isolation and low birth rates intersect in the heartbreaking experience of new mothers in America. In my short time as a mom (we have two toddlers and another child on the way), I have spoken with women at libraries, pregnancy centers, churches,...
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Reflection for Pentecost

  Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them. (John 20:22-23) The scene of our Lord’s first resurrection appearance to the disciples, when all of them are together, from the Gospel of John, is sometimes called “St. John’s Pentecost.” John doesn’t give the...
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