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A Pound of Flesh

A Pound of Flesh

The origin of the phrase “a pound of flesh” is Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The character Shylock demands payment for a loan, causing Portia, who is making the final judgment in the matter, to say to him, “Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh.” Of interest in the scene is that she specifies to Shylock that he may have flesh but not a drop of blood. Today, the...

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Laughable Or Extremely Sad? You Decide!

Laughable Or Extremely Sad? You Decide!

During a press conference earlier this week, Nancy Fortier Paltell, who is with the Respect Life office of the Maryland Catholic Conference, told the media that human embryonic research should be abandoned because truly positive results were coming from work with adult and cord blood stem cells.

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