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Note: Abby Johnson is a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic who converted to the pro-life cause. She has since founded a ministry, And Then There Were None, which is dedicated to helping workers in abortion clinics transition out of the…

May 14, 2013 (FRC.org) - The Left has a funny way of celebrating Mother's Day. First, the President issues a bizarre tweet reminding moms that his gift is free birth control -- presumably so they never have to become mothers again. Then, of…

May 14, 2013 (Breakpoint.org) - If I say the word “culture” to you, what other words come to mind? Art? Morals? Perhaps politics in its broadest sense?

Here’s a word that probably doesn’t come to mind: babies. Yet, as the recipient of the 2013…

May 14, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - I woke up this Mother’s Day morning to a cry for help.

Mother’s Day, for me, is a bit hard right now. I have a great mother, and a great mother-in-law. So that part is good. But I’m not a mother, and I’m…

LONDON, May 14, 2013 (Acton Institute) - Barbara Hewson, a London barrister, has made the call for lowering the age of sexual consent in the United Kingdom from 16 to 13. Her reasoning (if one may call it that) is that the current age of consent…

May 13, 2013 (thePublicDiscourse) - I see a boy.

Luke is ten years old. He sports a cowlick across his forehead, and a bright smile.

Despite the birth of a child a thousand miles away with vestigial organs of the opposite sex, and despite…

May 13, 2013 (Breakpoint.org) - Do you remember the great movie “Amazing Grace,” about William Wilberforce, the Christian Parliamentarian who led the charge to abolish the British slave trade?

One scene sticks in my mind right now, especially…

Note: This is part 8 in a series detailing known cases where babies have been born alive after failed abortions, and then been killed or left to die. To see the other parts of the series, click here.

May 13, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - Abortion…

**satire**

Dear Dr. Carhart,

I saw you on Live Action’s undercover video “Inhuman,” and I had to stop and write this.

Dr. Carhart, you are so brave.

You look women in the eye and tell them the truth: that by paying you to kill and…

Pope Francis has written to the Argentine Assembly of Bishops expressing the desire that they use the Aparecida document as their frame of reference for the government of the Church. As John-Henry Weston, editor-in-chief of LifeSite, puts it: "the…

In this era of motherhood by choice, we confront an oddity that I could never have imagined would occur in my lifetime. It becomes much more evident at this special time of year when we honor our mothers and express our sincere appreciation for…

May 10, 2013 (HLIWorldWatch.org) - May victims of rape be administered a “Plan B” (levonorgestrel-only) contraceptive?

Catholic bishops, ethicists, and researchers have given a variety of answers to this question. Some forbid its use entirely,…

May 10, 2013 (HLIWorldWatch.org) - Polls show that most young people today, even those who identify themselves as Christians, have no problem with “same-sex marriage.”

If young people today are at all aware of what the Catholic Church teaches…

May 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Irish government has produced an Abortion Bill that is cruel, archaic and utterly unacceptable.

It proposes to legalise the direct and intentional killing of unborn children in Ireland for the first time.…