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NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O'Hara

Struggling Financially, Planned Parenthood Now Offers Vasectomies and Botox

BLOG: Jason Morgan

Is It Right to Die?

Pastoral Reflections: Rev. George G. Brooks

Come Be Reconciled and Saved

BLOG: Diane Moriarty

On Rape, Prolifers should Show Humility and Heroics

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Rev. Victor Lee Austin

Patience and the Art of Dying

BLOG: Dr. Donald DeMarco

The March for Life and the Meaning of Life

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Fr. David Poecking

Leo and the Label “Prolife”

NEWSworthy: Matt Lamb

New York Governor Wants $65 Million For Abortionists, Planned Parenthood

BLOG: Denise Noe

Tim: The Oldenburg Boy Who Wasn’t Meant To Be

PASTORAL REFLECTIONS: Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth

Dasein ohne Leben (or “Existence without Life”): A Nazi Film Argues for Killing the Weakest

NEWSworthy: Jacqueline O'Hara

Judge Rejects Colorado’s Abortion Pill Reversal Ban

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Voters in five states choose to support abortion

  The midterm elections last week were disappointing for prolifers. In five states with ballot measures on abortion, voters chose the pro-abortion side each time. But, as William Murchison wrote in this space, “it’s essential that pro-life folk, after so much earnest effort...
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After Roe, legal abortions in the United States dropped 6 Percent

  Abortion bans enacted after the fall of Roe really did reduce the number of abortions in the United States—despite what pro-abortion advocates said. According to a new report summarized by the New York Times, “In the first two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe...
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Toby’s World

  I have a cousin who was born with a severe mental handicap and has been institutionalized since infancy. At the end of June, my cousin—let’s call him Toby—turned fifty. I don’t think any physician who examined him expected him to live to ten let alone all these years....
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Pastoral Reflections

Why Suffering?

    A couple of years ago, a colleague shared with a few of us that her daughter was suffering from a likely terminal cancer. The child rallied and faltered, and we rode the waves with her family in our prayers. We cooed over photographs of her bald little nine-year-old...
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