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Chris Smith Holds More Hearings to Free Chinese Human Rights Hero Chen Guangcheng

Chen defended thousands of women from the ongoing, most egregious systematic state-sponsored exploitation and abuse of women in human history-pervasive forced abortion and involuntary sterilization as part of China's one child per couple policy-and has suffered torture, cruel and degrading treatment, unjust incarceration, and multiple beatings as a result.
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Archbishop Lori: Be Loyal Americans by Being Bold and Courageous Catholics

We do not seek to defend religious liberty for partisan or political purposes, as some have suggested. No, we do this because we are lovers of a human dignity that was fashioned and imparted not by the government but by the Creator. We defend religious liberty because we are lovers of every human person, seeing in the face of every man and woman also the face of Christ, who loved us to the very end and who calls on us to love and serve our neighbor with the same love he has bestowed on us.
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