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After Abortion, which has many good posts over the past couple of days<\/a>, including a reflection on the personality traits of those who are drawn to social activism, a link to a story in the Cincinnati Enquirer about a "hometown hero" who happens to be involved in post-abortion healing ministry, and an interesting account of encounters between Rock for Life folks and abortion rights activists outside the Supreme Court last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Abortion, which has many good posts over the past couple of days, including a reflection on the personality traits of those who are drawn to social activism, a link to a story in the Cincinnati Enquirer about a "hometown hero" who happens to be involved in post-abortion healing ministry, and an interesting account of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGo check out... - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/go-check-out.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go check out... - 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