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What the Defeat of ‘Fetal Personhood’ Means for the Battle Ahead 

One of the tragic errors by the Supreme Court in its 1973 decision Roe v. Wade was the holding that unborn children are not legal “persons” within the meaning of the Constitution. When the Court overruled Roe this summer in the Dobbs decision, they unfortunately left...
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Planned Parenthood employee admits that abortion bans don’t prevent ectopic pregnancy care

Among the arguments used for why women need abortion is that, without it, women’s health will be at risk. However, media outlets and pro-abortion advocates have consistently misled the public when it comes to specific details, such as the danger that ectopic pregnancies could...
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Equal—but Still Separate

  When I first learned about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in grade school it seemed to me to be eminently just. School segregation had been manifestly wrong, an affront to human dignity. Underlying the “separate but equal” paradigm that held...
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Burial of a Queen

    God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in...
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