Several Catholic groups attended the march despite their disappointment with its overtly pro-choice platform.
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Catholic sisters join the Women’s March on Washington
Women religious champion social justice issues at the Women’s March on Washington.
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Who Counts as a “Real Woman” at the Women’s March on Washington?
To feminists of a certain cloth, the pro-life mentality is not an opposing view. It is an intrinsic evil, in all circumstances inexcusable, even abhorrent.
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The U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest point since Roe v. Wade
The percentage of pregnancies ending in abortion is down to 18.8 percent, a decline of nearly two-fifths below is 1983 peak of 30.3 percent.
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The politics of abortion will get more complicated in 2017
Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.
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Staring at the white Jesus in Dylann Roof’s prison journal
I haven’t heard much from Jesus lately. But today I saw him, sketched in pencil by the hand of a mass murderer.
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Ending the death penalty is closer than you think
Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.
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Of Many Things
The March for Life, the annual gathering of pro-life activists, clergy and civic leaders, will take place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27.
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Here’s what to know about all the abortion court cases on the way.
States are prohibited from placing an “undue burden” on pre-viability abortions, but may prohibit post-viability abortions.
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Britain approves making babies from 3 people’s DNA
The new procedures are intended to fix problems linked to mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a cell’s nucleus.