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Political Framing and the Pro-Life Mind

Every issue has its rhetoric — that’s the way human beings operate. After Roe v. Wade, the abortion debate was launched headlong into a bare-knuckle political struggle that has divided these United States in a way that only one other issue — slavery — ever

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The Apostle of Life: Father Paul Marx, OSB

By Steven W. Mosher _ Join us in celebrating the life of our Founder and Chairman on his 60th anniversary of priestly ordination. I owe Father Marx many debts. He helped to bring me into the pro-life movement, the most important social movement in the

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The Weakest Link

Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy has not been a bastion of strict constructivist thinking, nor has he compiled a pro-life or pro-family record on the court. So it comes as a pleasant surprise to find his name among the five justices who voted to uphold

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Stopping Therapeutic Abortion

25 June 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 22 Stopping "Therapeutic Abortion": The Case of Peru Abortion is a crime in Peru, as in all Latin American countries except Cuba and Puerto Rico. Unborn babies are protected from the moment of conception by the constitutions of

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The Poisoning of America

18 June 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 21 The Poisoning of America:   China’s Food and Drugs are Unsafe at any Price The news that Chinese toothpaste brands sold in Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Australia contained diethylene glycol, a highly toxic chemical used in engine

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Political Framing and the Pro-Life Mind

4 June 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 20 Dear Colleague, No one takes the world just as it comes.  We need to explain the world to ourselves, and to others, and to do so we adopt a certain view of things, and a certain terminology. 

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The Weakest Link

Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy has not been a bastion of strict constructivist thinking, nor has he compiled a pro-life or pro-family record on the

Read More »

The Poisoning of America

18 June 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 21 The Poisoning of America:   China’s Food and Drugs are Unsafe at any Price The news that Chinese

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