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Friday, November 20 2009 1:22 PM

An unprecedented "call of conscience"

Time will tell if it will actually have any impact, but the significance of this piece of news can't be overstated: More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion...

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