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Protestant and Catholic balance in the pro-life movement

In a column in First Things online, Mark Tooley uses the recent March for Life as an occasion to discuss what he sees as a shift within evangelical Protestantism to pro-life beliefs.

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 Essay in First Things (January 27, 2014): Protestants March for Life

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