fighting the Church on behalf of GOP Culture of Death priorities (whenever She sounds too \u201cDemocrat\u201d or \u201cliberal\u201d) and using the unborn as human shields while you do it<\/a>. <\/p>\nIn contrast, if you just agree with the Church\u2019s Whole Life Ethic, you can just stop wasting your time fighting the Church on behalf of a political candidate who regards you as a useful idiot and get back to spending your time and energy protecting human life from conception to natural death. You wind up being more prolife, not less.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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