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Abortion’s numbers game

Abortion’s numbers game

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—It’s quite a coincidence. In Pennsylvania you may abort a baby up to 24 weeks of gestation. It just so happens that most of abortionist…

Kermit Gosnell's defense attorney Jack McMahon

Finding a witness’ true voice at the Gosnell trail

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—It’s easy to see why the prosecution saved Kareema Cross for last in its five-week case against abortionist Kermit Gosnell. She was a…

GRUESOME BUSINESS: Women's Medical Society, where Gosnell did his work.
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Horror in the court

Abortion |  The gruesome trial of Kermit Gosnell sheds new light on the dark business of killing babies

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Abortion |  The shocking part of the Kermit Gosnell trial isn't only what's illegal

Supporters of gay marriage demonstrate outside the federal courthouse in Sacramento, Calif.

Court questions compelling interest for gay therapy ban

Courts |  A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday about California’s ban on sexual orientation change therapy targeting…

Karnamaya Mongar

Broken scales and death at the Gosnell trial

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—In 1951, the same year I was born, two baby girls in Prairie du Chien, Wis., were accidentally switched at birth, and the mistake did not come…

The Jackson Women's Health Organization

Judge: Last Mississippi abortion center can continue breaking the law

Abortion |  Mississippi’s sole abortion center will stay open for now after a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from revoking its license on Monday. U.S.

Karnamaya Mongar and her husband.

Life and death arguments at the Gosnell trial

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—Storing an aborted baby for disposal in “a cherry limeade container” is idiosyncratic, but can you convict someone for it? Hospital…

The directory at Kermit Gosnell's Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia.

The indefensible impugning the indefensible at the Gosnell trial

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—When you are dealing with indefensible people trying to impugn other indefensible people, the following examples are what it comes to in the…

The front window of Gosnell's West Philadelphia abortion center.

At the Gosnell trial: It takes a village to wreck a child

Abortion |  “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). PHILADELPHIA—But what if you train up a…

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Documenting death rather than preserving life in the Gosnell trial

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—Refreshingly, someone took the witness stand Wednesday in the Kermit Gosnell murder trial who had nothing to do with killing babies—neither…

Sherry West

The Gosnell trial’s bewildered witness

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—If abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial were an old Perry Mason episode, yesterday would have been the day when the famous defender would…

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