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Chinese Activist imprisoned: blind activist who exposed a campaign by Chinese officials to force women to have abortions was jailed for more than four years yesterday in one of the country’s most controversial human rights cases since the Tiananmen Square massacre. The case against Chen Guangcheng, a peasant who became known as the "barefoot lawyer…

Victor Morton nails Plan B: Let me see if I’ve got this straight: A daily dose of from 0.05 to 0.15 mg of levonorgestrel requires a prescription. Requiring that a 1.5 mg dose of levonorgestrel must have a prescription is patriarchal tyranny over women’s bodies, sexphobic anti-scientism and the precursor to a HANDMAID’S TALE-like theocracy.

The goods: In what he describes as “an act of undefeatable hope” and in what I describe as “desperation for attention,” Dr. Maguire sent a letter to all 270 Catholic Bishops in the United States urging them to read two enclosed pamphlets by Dr. Maguire, one arguing for abortion and the other for gay marriage.…

Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P comments below: If only there were a good serious biography of the Poverello himself! And I’m sitting here thinking…huh. There isn’t, you know. There are tons and tons of lives of Francis, but not a (to the extent in can be) complete scholarly biography. Interesting.
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