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A Compromise That Would Have Cost Obama Nothing
It looks as if we have reached a point where a compromise between the Obama administration and the American bishops is unlikely. Both sides are hardening in their positions....
A Pro–Life Loss of Nerve?
There are times when it is hard to accept that advocates of legal abortion mean what they say. One wonders, for example, if anyone actually believes that partial“birth abortion...
