Red Alert!

I don't like doing this, but I have to issue a red alert! With just 6 days left in our summer campaign we are only one-fifth of the way to our necessary goal of 5,000 donations!
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The unseen trial

My husband taught on Psalm 27 last night and my heart ached as I imagined David's words coming from a baby in the womb while his parents were plotting abortion.
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USCCB President Slams Catholic Health Association Support for Health Bill

USCCB President Slams Catholic Health Association Support for Health Bill by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert CHICAGO, March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), hit back hard Monday against the Catholic Health Association’s (CHA) endorsement of the abortion-expanding health care bill. George’s statement came only days after CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan issued a letter to lawmakers urging them to “move quickly to enact health care reform,” and the same day that Keehan characterized the legislation as “a major first step” – despite not being “perfect” on life […]
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Traditional Catholic Nuns Back Bishops against Health Bill

Traditional Catholic Nuns Back Bishops against Health Bill by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., March 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Immediately after a leading group of religious sisters flouted US bishops to announce support for the Senate health care bill as “the REAL pro-life stance,” a group of traditional Catholic nuns have backed the bishops’ condemnation of the bill as a serious threat to Catholic pro-life values. The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) entered into the health care scrap after the US Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops was challenged by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious […]
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Child Porn Pandemic as Police Estimate 600,000 Americans, 65,000 Canadians Trading Child Porn Online

Child Porn Pandemic as Police Estimate 600,000 Americans, 65,000 Canadians Trading Child Porn Online by LifeSiteNews.com By Kathleen Gilbert TORONTO, Ontario, February 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ontario police yesterday celebrated the results of a province-wide child pornography bust, the largest in Ontario’s history – yet officers acknowledge they have only scratched the surface of the massive underworld of child sexual abuse in North America. Police officers said at a press conference Thursday that the sweep led to the arrest of 31 child sex offenders between the age of 14 and 60, as well as the rescue of two young victims, […]
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In defense of Hilary White

Every LifeSiteNews employee does this work precisely because of their love for God and for truth. We take it very personally when anyone attempts to demean one of our team.
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ACLU director says movie ‘makes abortion funny’

That statement should offend both sides: not only those who oppose abortion but also those who abort (after all, if it wasn’t difficult, why the “not in her shoes” mantra?). But not so for the media – abortion is the very definition of “funny,” in The Washington Post’s latest piece.  The Washington Post recently published American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Louise Messing’s article where she gushed, “Finally, a movie that makes abortion funny.” Messing was referring to the abortion romantic “comedy,” “Obvious Child,” which opened June 6 and hits theaters nationwide June 27. As a media favorite, the film, said Cosmo, highlighted […]
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Mugging by Catholic bloggers

Now and then various Church officials complain about deeply uncharitable and harmful discussions on some Catholic blogs. Facebook, blogs, Twitter and even email can each far too easily allow angry thoughts that cross people’s minds to be published for all the world to see without the sober second thought that would naturally accompany face-to-face or spoken communication. There was a recent attack against LifeSiteNews from a very well known Catholic writer and another such writer and her husband. Using these means of unfiltered near-instant communications, they poured calumny and invective on LifeSiteNews and our talented and committed staff. Critics who […]
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Ohio city passes law to stop Stand True from chalking pro-life messages during Strawberry Festival

Last night Stand True President, Bryan Kemper, the Stand True Missionaries and some of Bryan’s children were approached by the Troy, OH Police Department while they were sidewalk chalking. We were told that we could not do this because Troy, OH passed a special law that is only in effect for 4 days to stop Stand True from sidewalk chlaking. In the ordinance passed to permit the Strawberry Festival in downtown Troy, OH it included this “SECTION VII: That no person shall write, paint, chalk or otherwise permanently or temporarily deface or mark on the public streets, sidewalks, alleys or […]
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Active euthanasia comes to North America

The poison has jumped across the Atlantic from Netherlands and Belgium: Quebec has legalized active euthanasia. I have discussed the contents of new law at length previously and I don’t want to repeat myself.  However, the bill did undergo some changes since I wrote about it, and there are certain sections of the new law that need to be emphasized, so here goes: The euphemism for homicide in the law is “aid in dying,” which in turn, is defined as part of “end of life care.“ Receiving “end of life care”–including euthanasia–is now a positive right. From the law (my emphasis): RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO END-OF-LIFE […]
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Illegal work being done at future site of abortion clinic in Des Plaines, Illinois

Since learning that Forest View Medical Center abortion clinic in Des Plaines, Illinois had closed nearly two months ago, the Pro-Life Action League has continued to keep a close eye on the facility. After the closing, we knew that the building that formerly housed Forest View was still owned by Vinod and Vijay Goyal, a husband-and-wife team who own more abortion clinics (five) than anyone else in the state, so we were obviously concerned that the Goyals might attempt to open another abortion facility at the site. And, in fact, we’ve recently learned that’s exactly what they’re planning to do. […]
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Obama’s Abortion Bombshell: Unrestricted Abortion Over Wishes of Individual States a Priority for Pr

Obama’s Abortion Bombshell: Unrestricted Abortion Over Wishes of Individual States a Priority for Pr by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Barack Obama, the presumptive pro-abortion nominee of the Democratic Party, has plans to reward the allies that helped him topple Hillary Clinton from her throne by making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his number one priority as president. In light of Obama’s recently achieved status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink has decided to remind its supporters that almost one year has passed since Obama made […]
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B.C. Teacher Kempling May Lose Teaching License for Defending Christian Beliefs

B.C. Teacher Kempling May Lose Teaching License for Defending Christian Beliefs by LifeSiteNews.com By John Jalsevac QUESNEL, BC, February 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The last half a decade has not been easy on B.C. teacher, Chris Kempling. In 2003 the soft-spoken educator was cited by the College of Teachers for professional misconduct, after he wrote in to a local newspaper outlining Christian teachings on homosexuality. After a hearing on the matter, Kempling was found guilty of the charges, and his teaching license was suspended for a month. Kempling appealed that decision in the Canadian court system, all the way to […]
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Study Shows 26 Percent of U.S. Teenage Girls Have STD

Study Shows 26 Percent of U.S. Teenage Girls Have STD by LifeSiteNews.com By Michael Baggot ATLANTA, GA, March 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Twenty six percent of US teenage girls have contracted at least one of the four major sexually transmitted diseases, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday. The CDCP estimates that 3.2 million US teen girls have an STD. The study examined the sexual behavior of 838 teenage girls, half of whom admitted to having sex during their teen years. Of that half, 40 percent had contracted an STD. Nearly half of […]
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Medical Journalist Says Reliance on Condoms Spreads HIV/AIDS

Medical Journalist Says Reliance on Condoms Spreads HIV/AIDS by LifeSiteNews.com By Gudrun Schultz WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A medical journalist has added her voice to claims that the explosion in HIV/AIDS infection rates is directly linked to reliance on condom use as a virus preventative. Writing for Crisis Magazine, prize-winning investigative journalist Sue Ellin Browder said the growing consensus among public health professionals is that condoms should only be used as a last measure of protection for persons involved in extremely high-risk activity such as sex-trade work. Zenit News Agency reported yesterday on Browder’s conclusions. “So far, […]
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Study Finds TV Treats Marital Sex as Burdensome, Adultery as Positive

Study Finds TV Treats Marital Sex as Burdensome, Adultery as Positive by LifeSiteNews.com LOS ANGELES, August 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Parents Television Council released a new study, Happily Never After: How Hollywood Favors Adultery and Promiscuity Over Marital Intimacy on Prime Time Broadcast Television, which revealed that broadcast networks depict sex in the context of marriage as either non-existent or burdensome, while showing positive depictions of extra-marital or adulterous sexual relationships with alarming frequency. Across the broadcast networks, the new PTC report found that verbal references to non-marital sex outnumbered references to sex in the context of marriage by […]
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Canada’s Greatest Defender of Humanae Vitae Calls on Bishops to Reject Dissenting Document

Canada’s Greatest Defender of Humanae Vitae Calls on Bishops to Reject Dissenting Document by LifeSiteNews.com By John-Henry Westen TORONTO, July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the upcoming edition of Catholic Insight magazine, Canada’s greatest defender of the Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae – 92-year-old Monsignor Vincent Foy – concludes his lifelong championship of the papal position on birth control. Released today, on the 40th anniversary of the encyclical, Monsignor Foy calls on the Bishops of Canada to revoke their “Winnipeg Statement”, which he says is an unacceptable document of dissent. Humanae Vitae presents the teaching against contraception as stemming […]
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Hard cases, unite to make a difference!

How would like to be labeled “a hard case?”  What if your class of people were systematically targeted for extinction within legislation?  What if political candidates felt quite comfortable with stating their position that you and your kind aren’t worth protecting and better off dead?  What if your child was regularly stigmatized by our society?  That’s exactly what it’s like for those of us who were conceived in rape, mothers from rape, and those given a poor in utero diagnosis.  But being branded as a “hard case” becomes easier when we all begin to unite behind our unique kinship.  And that’s what Save The 1 has been doing – […]
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Media hypes ‘abortion comedy’ as Planned Parenthood hosts screening

Finally, a movie that presents the murder of an innocent as the laugh riot it is! In the new abortion romantic comedy hitting theaters, the child in “Obvious Child” is anything but obvious. In fact, it’s dead, which is why so many pro-abortionists are praising the movie. Director Gillian Robespierre’s “Obvious Child” follows an aspiring young comedian, Donna Stern, whose abortion turns into a “happily ever after” love story. Opening June 6, the film stresses “self-discovery and empowerment” and the “realities of independent womanhood.” With endorsements from Planned Parenthood and NARAL as well as applause from the media, the abortion “comedy” serves as […]
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Pro-life billboard towers over Planned Parenthood – for one day

Jackson Right to Life, in Michigan, followed all the rules when renting billboard space next to the Jackson Planned Parenthood. For one glorious day a pro-life billboard towered over Planned Parenthood’s pathetic little abortion feeder with the simple but powerful message, “Choose Life = No Regrets.” There was only one problem: The billboard was on Planned Parenthood’s property. Adams Outdoor Advertising had leased the billboard space but forgotten about Planned Parenthood’s addendum forbidding any pro-life messaging. Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! So just as quickly as the billboard went up, on June 9, it came down the next day. Adams is offering Jackson […]
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Assisted suicides in Washington state jump 43% in one year

Assisted suicide is on the rise in Washington.  From the Seattle Times story: More than 100 people died in Washington last year after requesting and taking a lethal prescription through Washington’s Death with Dignity law, the state’s Department of Health reported Wednesday. Officials said that 173 people requested and received lethal doses of medication in 2013, a 43 percent increase from the year before. And in every one of these deaths, the doctors were legally required to lie on the death certificates that the deaths were from natural causes. That’s downright corrupting of the medical system. Click “like” if you are […]
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Youth to Canadian MPs: Represent us!

Youth across Canada want their voices heard, especially when they are constantly being stifled by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and New Democrat MP Niki Ashton. Judging from this video, they won't be silenced!  Reprinted with permission from CampaignLifeCoalition.com.
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Planned Parenthood CEO’s annual salary now exceeds $500,000

According to Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s 2012 IRS Form 990, CEO Cecile Richards made over one-half million dollars – $523,616, to be exact – for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2013. That’s a lot of money to pay the CEO of a nonprofit organization, particularly one that claims to cater to low-income women. “Planned Parenthood works to make health care accessible and affordable,” boasts Planned Parenthood.  Really? How much more affordable would Planned Parenthood’s services be were not its corporate bosses and affiliate CEOs making big bucks? For that 2012 reporting period, PPFA’s 12-member executive team tallied a combined income […]
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The flaws, foibles, and failings of Emily Letts’ ‘abortion’ video

In March, Philadelphia actress and abortion counselor Emily Letts posted a video that ostensibly recorded an abortion she had. The video, which has garnered praise from many abortion advocates, has also garnered its share of pro-life critics, including LifeSiteNews' own Ben Johnson. Our U.S. Bureau Chief pointed out that Letts' video merely “purports to be” about abortion, since “it does not show the abortion procedure, the doctor, nor anything below her waist.” It's not just pro-lifers who are hammering Letts, either. One abortion supporter wrote that Letts' cavalier attitude ignores that “abortion is not something to be taken lightly or […]
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TIME: Learning baby’s sex before birth may ‘pressure’ it ‘into specific gender role’

Expectant moms: Be careful shopping in the baby department, ladies – you might just dictate your bundle of joy’s gender with your next purchase, or so says TIME Magazine.  TIME Magazine’s Eliana Dockterman recently examined “The Problem with Wanting to Know Your Baby’s Sex before Birth.” In her article, Dockterman argued that buying pink or blue clothes could “pressure” children “into specific gender roles.” The article pointed to a study that claimed that women who wait to find out a baby’s sex are “more egalitarian, conscientious.” And probably more likely to care what Eliana Dockterman thinks of their choices. On the other […]
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If we approve ‘3-parent children’ we’d be permitting blatant human experimentation on kids

If the “we never say no” Human Embryo Authority in the UK approves the creation of 3-parent embryos, it would be permitting blatant human experimentation on children. Indeed, I don’t see any other way to look at it. Note the quote below. From the Associated Press story: Britain’s fertility regulator says controversial techniques to create embryos from the DNA of three people “do not appear to be unsafe” even though no one has ever received the treatment, according to a new report released Tuesday. The report based its conclusion largely on lab tests and some animal experiments and called for […]
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South by Southwest: Pro-life laws eradicating abortion clinics

There is a mesmerizing time-lapse video at the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, that in four minutes shows the North’s four-year takeover of the South during the Civil War (screen shots above – view a video clip here). I was reminded of that video when viewing this GIF from Planned Parenthood. Click on the image to launch… The correlation between slavery and abortion makes it poignant that legal abortion is first being wiped out in the South, although the area also encompasses some of the Southwest, including Texas and Oklahoma…. While many different types of pro-life laws are being enacted, such as late-term abortion bans, waiting periods, ultrasound requirements, and parental […]
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The Detroit News’ biased abortion coverage

Last week, the Detroit News ran an article about abortion trends in the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan. It found that abortion numbers were increasing in Detroit while falling elsewhere in the state.  In general, abortion trends tend to get very little coverage from the media.  As such, it was heartening to see the paper cover this important topic. That said the coverage was extremely biased. Twice the article mentioned that legal abortion is a “safe” procedure. In reality, there is a substantial body of public health research which shows that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer and a range of psychological problems, […]
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Euthanasia in Canada: Letter writing campaign

The Québec euthanasia Bill 52 will be voted on very soon, possibly today (June 3).  Steven Fletcher is busy promoting his private members bills to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the Carter case on October 14. The Carter case seeks to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. On June 2 the National Post published a page of letters, with the majority of the letters supporting euthanasia. This means that the euthanasia lobby asked their supporters to write letters. To write a letter to the editor you need to keep your letter short […]
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Planned Parenthood: Ok to put pro-choice rosaries on ovaries

While abortion proponents have forever belittled opposition to abortion (and contraception) in the name of religion, hypocritial Planned Parenthood has for at least two decades used pro-abortion clergy to promote killing preborn children. In October 2013, Planned Parenthood Federation of America released a “Pastoral Letter to Patients” that is only now getting media attention, today headlined on Drudge. PPFA’s inexplicably pro-abortion Clergy Advisory Board is comprised of 12 men and only three women, a lopsided 4:1 gender ratio that would draw ire if a board of pro-life pastors. But I’ve already noted Planned Parenthood is hypocritical. The letter states, in part: The decision to have an abortion is personal. Though […]
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Quebec regains that killing feeling

Quebec is on the verge–again–of legalizing a radical euthanasia bill. From the National Post story: One of the first acts of Premier Philippe Couillard’s new Liberal government was to revive Bill 52, which was nearing a final vote in March when the previous Parti Québécois government called an election. All parties agreed to bring the legislation back at the stage it had been before the election. With final debate set to begin next week, the government said it fully expects it will become law before the session ends June 13. Parties have agreed to allow a free vote, but a […]
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Everything old is new again: The resurgence of pro-life hospital pickets

“Anti-Abortion Protesters Are Coming to a Hospital Near You.” That’s the apt title of an article published last week by pro-choice journalist Robin Marty on the liberal website ThinkProgress. Noting that the vast majority of abortions are performed in freestanding clinics, Marty says hospitals are “increasingly viewed as the weak link in the battle over abortion access.” She then adds, “And that’s exactly the way medical boards like it.” But as more and more states are enacting legislation requiring abortionists in freestanding facilities to have admitting privileges at and transfer agreements with a local hospital, the landscape is changing: Admitting […]
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The Real Pierre Trudeau: Father of Canada’s Permissive Society

The Real Pierre Trudeau: Father of Canada’s Permissive Society by Steve Jalsevac Trudeau in 1971 Trudeau and future liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien Trudeau being greeted by Chinese communist leader Mao Tse Tung Trudeau and his friend Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro who came to Trudeau’s funeral. Trudeau in 1982 NOTE: this article has been updated with some additional information since it’s original publication in 2000. There was a disturbing void in most reporting on the death of Pierre Trudeau during the idolizing media frenzy and pomp surrounding his death and lavish Catholic funeral. Very little of the substantial negatives […]
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Forced Abortion, Rape Victim Comes Forward After Abortionist Given Slap on the Wrist

Forced Abortion, Rape Victim Comes Forward After Abortionist Given Slap on the Wrist by LifeSiteNews.com DETROIT, Mich., February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Outraged by what she considers a meaningless sentence and remarks by an attorney that she says are insulting and untrue, a former patient of Womancare, a Detroit-area abortion facility, has come forward to tell of her abortion experience with owner, abortionist Alberto Hodari. Jennifer McCoy’s hair-raising account of a forced abortion and the non-reporting of child sexual abuse that allowed her rapist to continue abusing her is part of an investigative report about Hodari’s legal problems released today […]
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Text Messaging Prevents Coerced Abortion at Planned Parenthood

Text Messaging Prevents Coerced Abortion at Planned Parenthood by LifeSiteNews.com Albuquerque, NM, October 8, 2010 (OperationRescue.org) – The seventeen-year-old teen sat nervously in the waiting room of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. She was six weeks pregnant and did not want to have an abortion, but her mother had insisted. Suddenly, her phone alerted her to an incoming text message. “Jane, [not her real name] you are a mom! Please choose life for your baby, we want to help you! Tara” That began a texting conversation that ultimately led to the […]
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Michigan Abortionist Admits to Forcing Client into Abortion

Michigan Abortionist Admits to Forcing Client into Abortion by LifeSiteNews.com By Peter J. Smith FLINT, Michigan, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Michigan abortionist Abraham Alberto Hodari has admitted to having an assistant forcibly restrain a woman who changed her mind about having an abortion, claiming he had already begun the procedure and wanted to guarantee a “safe abortion.” Local station NBC 25, which has determinedly pursued this story of forced abortion at Hodari’s Flint’s Feminine Health Care Clinic, reports that 20-year-old Caitlin Bruce wanted to keep her child after seeing its ultrasound image. Bruce said that Hodari was in the […]
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Canada Considers Further Legalizing Prostitution While Amsterdam Mayor Admits Legalization’s Failure

Canada Considers Further Legalizing Prostitution While Amsterdam Mayor Admits Legalization’s Failure by LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA/AMSTERDAM, October 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Liberal dominated government committee looking into prostitution is recommending the Canadian government legalize solicitation so that prostitutes may legally offer sex for money. Meanwhile the mayor of Amsterdam has for the first time admitted that the Dutch experiment to curb abuse by legalizing prostitution has failed miserably. Policemen in Amsterdam’s infamous red light district were quoted by Dutch media Friday as saying, “We are in the midst of modern slavery.” Due to the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands in […]
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