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Former Planned Parenthood director details turn of heart

abby johnson.jpg  ‘I grew up Southern Baptist’

by Bonnie Pritchett
REVISED 12/18/09 to improve information about the abortion drug RU 486 described in paragraphs 31 and 33.

BRYAN, Texas (BP)–Abby Johnson had never felt so alone. Sitting in her Planned Parenthood office and weeping, Johnson, who was raised Southern Baptist, knew God had called her to leave her job as director of the women’s health and abortion clinic and join forces with the Coalition for Life advocates just down the street. continue reading… »

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The U.S. Government and the Railroads—A Tale of Bribery and Corruption

  It was noontime, May 10, 1869, when Leland Stanford drove a ceremonial golden spike into a special laurel tie to complete the first U.S. transcontinental railway. The iconic photo shows hundreds of dignitaries and railroad workers gathered in the Utah desert around two facing locomotives. It was an extraordinary event, a media sensation, for the frontier had been bridged, and the West was now open for business. But there were big problems.
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