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<p>On his radio show Friday, Rush Limbaugh delivered a powerful monologue (<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/06/14/abortion_at_the_root_of_our_cultural_decay">transcript</a>, <a href="http://dailyrushbo.com/rush-abortion-is-at-the-root-of-so-much-that-is-going-wrong-in-america/">video</a>) asserting that in addition to its innate monstrousness, abortion is “at the root of our cultural decay” as a nation, its impact stretching from respect for life and personal responsibility to crime, immigration, and the economy: <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2004" title="Permanent Link: Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society’s Ills" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(836 words, estimated 3:21  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society’s Ills</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2004" title="Permanent Link: Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society’s Ills" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (836 words, estimated 3:21  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2004,"date":"2013-06-19T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2013-08-15T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:02:09","slug":"rush-limbaugh-abortion-is-at-the-heart-of-american-societys-ills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society\u2019s Ills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On his radio show Friday, Rush Limbaugh delivered a powerful monologue (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/06\/14\/abortion_at_the_root_of_our_cultural_decay\">transcript<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailyrushbo.com\/rush-abortion-is-at-the-root-of-so-much-that-is-going-wrong-in-america\/\">video<\/a>) asserting that in addition to its innate monstrousness, abortion is \u201cat the root of our cultural decay\u201d as a nation, its impact stretching from respect for life and personal responsibility to crime, immigration, and the economy: <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2004\" title=\"Permanent Link: Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society\u2019s Ills\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(836 words, estimated 3:21  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society\u2019s Ills<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2004\" title=\"Permanent Link: Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society\u2019s Ills\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (836 words, estimated 3:21  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society\u2019s Ills - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2004\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rush Limbaugh: Abortion is at the Heart of American Society\u2019s Ills - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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