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What’s the difference between abortion and infanticide?

The two issues are uncomfortably entangled.

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Genevieve’s Lion Heart

A Nigerian actor-director resists abortion and makes the big time.

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The LGBT agenda that is tearing a school apart

Respect for 'difference' seems to be a one-way street.

Chris McGovern |

Yearbook shaming is unjust and a moral red herring

It’s a man’s behaviour today that should concern us.

Carolyn Moynihan |

The Orwellian nightmare of ‘trans truth’

How can a woman be both a mother and a father?

Ann Farmer |

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