Author Archive for John Jalsevac

America’s Most Charming Couple is Back
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America’s Most Charming Couple is Back

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Yup, it’s them again. America’s most charming couple is back in the news. You remember, don’t you? We were introduced back in May when Albert Garland (a pseudonym), published a piece on Babble with the charming sub-headline: “My wife’s expecting twins — and I’m not happy about it.” Things only went downhill from there. Well, […]

Scalia: SCOTUS Decision Declares Marriage Supporters ‘Enemies of the Human Race’
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Scalia: SCOTUS Decision Declares Marriage Supporters ‘Enemies of the Human Race’

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In a scathing dissenting opinion released yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia lambasted his fellow Supreme Court Justices for striking down a critical part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and predicted that it will only be a matter of time before the court finds a Constitutional right to gay “marriage.” Scalia labeled Wednesday’s decision “jaw-dropping,” […]

Pope Benedict XVI to Resign February 28
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Pope Benedict XVI to Resign February 28

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In a surprise announcement, Pope Benedict XVI said today that he will resign at the end of the month. The pope said that due to the increased weakness accompanying his advanced age – he is 85 – he feels that he is unable to carry out the duties of his office. “After having repeatedly examined […]

Obama Admin Releases Revised Rules for HHS Mandate
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Obama Admin Releases Revised Rules for HHS Mandate

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Legal analysts are scrambling today to make sense of new regulations released by the Obama administration that purport to provide a broader opt-out for religious organizations opposed to the HHS birth control mandate. However, conservative groups are approaching the revised rules warily, after a previous “accommodation” announced by the Obama administration was widely denounced as […]

Two Women are Behind Legalized Abortion in America: Now Both of Them Want it Reversed
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Two Women are Behind Legalized Abortion in America: Now Both of Them Want it Reversed

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In the debate over abortion in the United States, two women’s names appear more frequently than any others: Jane Roe and Mary Doe, the plaintiffs in the companion 1973 Supreme Court cases that legalized abortion in the country. With the 40th anniversary of those two cases – Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton – this month, news media […]

Bishops Urge Nine Days of Prayer, Penance In Lead Up to Roe v. Wade Anniversary
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Bishops Urge Nine Days of Prayer, Penance In Lead Up to Roe v. Wade Anniversary

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The U.S. bishops are urging Catholics nationwide to participate in nine days of prayer, penance, and pilgrimage between January 19-27, marking the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities is asking Catholics to pray “for healing and conversion, for elected officials who support abortion and for all people whose […]

Pray, Fast to Protect Life, Marriage, Religious Liberty: U.S. Bishops Launch New Campaign
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Pray, Fast to Protect Life, Marriage, Religious Liberty: U.S. Bishops Launch New Campaign

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Citing “unprecedented challenges” to life, marriage and religious liberty, the bishops of the United States have called on all the faithful to fast, pray a daily Rosary, have regular Holy Hours and Masses, and attend rallies, “for the sake of renewing a culture of life, marriage, and religious liberty in our country.” In explaining the […]

We Serve a God of Miracles: Changing Hearts and Minds About Abortion
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We Serve a God of Miracles: Changing Hearts and Minds About Abortion

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Abby Johnson has been very, very busy. Not only has the former Planned Parenthood clinic manager been flying all across the country giving pro-life talks and encouraging grassroots pro-life activism, but her new charity, “And Then There Were None,” has already helped 30 abortion workers leave the industry since it was launched earlier this year. […]

U.S. March for Life Founder Nellie Gray Passes Away
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U.S. March for Life Founder Nellie Gray Passes Away

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One of the leading lights of the pro-life movement in the United States has gone out. Nellie Gray, the charismatic octogenarian founder of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., the largest annual pro-life event in the country, passed away over the weekend, and was discovered in her apartment yesterday. Gray, who was once […]

How Can We Achieve ‘Common Ground’ With Those Believe the Fetus is a ‘Parasite’?
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How Can We Achieve ‘Common Ground’ With Those Believe the Fetus is a ‘Parasite’?

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Leftist activists speak a lot about the need to achieve “common ground” with their ideological foes. In the abortion debate abortion proponents will often say that they want to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare,” and will point out that even if we can’t all agree on the “legal” part, then we can at least […]

Canada’s New Tyranny: The State’s Takeover of the Family
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Canada’s New Tyranny: The State’s Takeover of the Family

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The great English writer G.K. Chesterton once wrote: “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” But if what Chesterton says is true, then Canada fails the test, because the Canadian family is no longer free. In the past […]

The Annual Media Blackout of the March for Life
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The Annual Media Blackout of the March for Life

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What’s more newsworthy: that several hundred thousand people converged on Capitol Hill in the midst of a cold rain in the middle of January in order to protest abortion, or that a tiny handful of pro-abortion counter protesters showed up as well? Here’s another question: are attendees at the March for Life primarily young, vibrant, […]

Former Employees Offer to Testify Against Planned Parenthood in Congressional Probe
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Former Employees Offer to Testify Against Planned Parenthood in Congressional Probe

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Seven former Planned Parenthood employees have expressed their support for Congress’ current investigation of the abortion giant, and offered to testify against the organization, in a letter released this week. News broke in September that the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce had launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood to determine whether the group mishandles criminal […]

Young Girl With Down Syndrome Becomes ‘Darling’ of Child Modeling World
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Young Girl With Down Syndrome Becomes ‘Darling’ of Child Modeling World

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When Gemma Andre submitted photos of her young daughter, Taya, to a UK modeling agency at the urging of a family member, she didn’t say anything about the fact that Taya was born with Down syndrome. “No one asked the question, ‘Is your child disabled?’ So I didn’t mention it,” Gemma told the Daily Mail […]

Dad Behind Viral ‘I am the 10%’ Down Syndrome Image Speaks Out
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Dad Behind Viral ‘I am the 10%’ Down Syndrome Image Speaks Out

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In the past week a powerful pro-life photo featuring a child with Down syndrome has started circulating around Facebook. The image shows the smiling child holding a sign declaring that he is the “10%” of children with Down syndrome who managed to survive abortion after Roe v. Wade. “I am God’s handiwork and I bear […]

Protect Life Act Debate: Pro-abort Rep. Can’t Bring Herself to Say ‘Heartbeat’
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Protect Life Act Debate: Pro-abort Rep. Can’t Bring Herself to Say ‘Heartbeat’

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The other week I drew attention to a shocking videoin which a number of Planned Parenthood representatives repeatedly urged university students to ignore the science about when life begins. Not only did they suggest that the science has no bearing at all upon the debate about abortion, but they appeared even to cast doubt on […]