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$\"\"$ <\/a> Today is the 100th birthday of our 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan.<\/p>\n

Most people are unaware that in 1983 during his first term President Reagan published an article in the Human Life Review<\/em>, \u201cAbortion and the Conscience of the Nation<\/a>.\u201d It was eventually published as a small book<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/a> a year later with afterwards by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and Malcolm Muggeridge. To commemorate the \u00a020th anniversary of the article and subsequent book, in 2004 <\/a>Human Life Review <\/a><\/em>published a special issue<\/a> that not \u00a0only included President Reagan\u2019s original article but articles by several writers assessing the president\u2019s work. I am proud to say that I was one of those writers. I still cannot believe that my article, \u201c What Would Reagan Do?<\/a>,\u201d appeared alongside President Reagan\u2019s. (You can find it\u00a0 here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(Pic on right: Me at the Reagan Library, March 17, 2004)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"