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Tag Archive for ‘abortion’

16 million girls

Sixteen million girls are missing in China. And now we know what happened to them: They were aborted because they weren’t boys. A study published last week in the British Medical Journal, based on a survey of nearly 5 million Chinese children and teenagers, bares the gruesome numbers. Worldwide, the number of boys born per […]

The GOP’s useful idiots?

At 36 years old, the pro-life movement is still energetic and indignant—and trapped. Every year of Republican rule has increased the suspicion that pro-lifers are the GOP’s useful idiots. Planned Parenthood still received federal dollars, and Congress never stripped courts of their ability to overturn parental notification and conscience laws. A human life amendment was […]