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IN LATE MAY, NEARLY 30 COLLEGE STUDENTS GATHered in Houston for a weeklong summit on how they could be the generation to end abortion in America. One day, after a morning prayer, the students attended a training session held by the Abortion Dialogue Academy, an organization disseminating “persuasive pro-life arguments.”

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