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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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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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What Are They Thinking?

30 May 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 19 Dear Colleague, Why has the abortion movement reintroduced the Freedom of Choice Act now, when it stands little chance of passage? Steven W. Mosher President    What Are They Thinking? Even though the recent Gonzales v. Carhart decision

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Encouraging the Poles to Have Large Families

21 May 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 18 Dear Colleague, The Polish birthrate has plummeted in recent years, falling from 2.3 children in 1990 to 1.3 today.  Have the Poles been infected by the “white pestilence” that is decimating their neighbors?  What should they be

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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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What Are They Thinking?

30 May 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 19 Dear Colleague, Why has the abortion movement reintroduced the Freedom of Choice Act now, when it stands

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