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The U.S. abortion rate is lower than it was in 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in every state. There were 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in 2017, the last year for which statistics are available, compared with 16.3 in 1973, and 29.3 in 1982 when abortions peaked. The…

Claire Culwell dedicated her web site, http://www.claireculwell.com to telling her story. When she was 21 years old, Claire Culwell discovered a huge secret about her past: her biological mom had tried to have an abortion when she was pregnant with Claire and her twin. While Claire’s twin didn’t survive,…

The French government has banned an advertisement on TV that shows happy children with Down syndrome. The reason given for the ban is that the ad could “disturb the conscience of women who aborted Down syndrome babies.” Will Saletan, writing in Slate, comments; “You start banning hate speech, and pretty…

Economists have long warned of the coming economic difficulty when the number of Baby Boomers retiring overwhelms the remaining workers and crashes the Social Security system. One letter writer in World Magazine reminds the readers of the 40 million taxpayers removed from the work force by the terror…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…