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Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse is president of C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He is also a bi-weekly columnist with Crisis Magazine.

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March-for-Life

March for Life Expects 500,000

Up to 500,000 mostly young people are queued up to rally for unborn children on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, January 22, in what has become the largest ongoing civil rights march in American history.

Greg Baker / AFP

The Dangers of a World Without Women

A few years ago the New York Times ran a story about North Korean farmers selling their daughters for food to Chinese men. New stories are coming to light about Burmese women being sold on the Chinese market. The Chinese

AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic

How a Judge Made the Gay Marriage Debate Even More Confusing

A US District Court judge named Robert Hinkle decided last August that two gay men in Washington Country, Florida could not be stopped from getting married and that the Florida law making it a misdemeanor for a county clerk to issue a marriage license to same-sex couples violated the US Constitution.

AP/Rogelio V. Solis

How to Make an Abortion Clinic Beautiful

After years of protests and legislative regulations have closed all the other abortion clinics in the state, the shocking-pink Jackson Women’s Health Organization is the last one in Mississippi—and it may be headed for reconstruction to make it “extraordinarily beautiful.”

AFP PHOTO FRANK PERRY

Has Polygyny Spawned Islamic Violence?

Perhaps the strongest drive that mankind feels is to procreate. Catholic theologians say the drive to continue the species is one of the few aspects of natural law that humans know without being taught.