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A Modest Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce

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A new proposal for reducing unnecessary divorce gets to the heart of the problem: the current system seeks to meet a divorcing couple’s every need—except for time and education on reconciliation.
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Human Development and Human Flourishing: Creating Capabilities Isn’t Enough

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Rawlsian “public reason” approaches to human capabilities are insufficient bases for social justice.
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Private Property and Human Flourishing

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Private property should be preserved and protected because of its deep contribution to human well-being.
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It’s a Girl

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The Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence appears to protect a right to abortion even for reasons of sex selection. Yet this gruesome reality might provide an opening for a frontal assault on the premises of Roe v. Wade.
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Sold for Sex: The Link Between Street Gangs and Human Trafficking

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In order to curtail human sex trafficking successfully, we must take seriously that street gangs are a large part of the problem.
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Healthcare, Conscience, and Religious Liberty: A Response to Linda Greenhouse

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New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse refuses to see the truth about contraception, conscience, and religious liberty.
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Pornography, Public Morality, and Constitutional Rights

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Every member of the community has an interest in the quality of the culture that will shape their experiences, their quality of life, and the choices effectively available to them and their children.
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Punishment: Political, Not Metaphysical

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The presumptive starting point in the natural law and, more specifically, Christian tradition is one of absolute opposition to intentional killing of beings created in the image of God, for which exceptions must be earned; but the traditional justifications for such exceptions fail.
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Post-Kinsey: Is There Anything Normal About Pornography?

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An “adaptationist” approach to pornography is dangerous because it ignores widespread research showing that pornography harms society at many levels.
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Abortion, Divorce and “Same-Sex Marriage”: No Blood, No Foul?

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Political legitimization of “private” sexual and marital choices causes much public harm. We have been personally harmed by the regimes of abortion and easy divorce.
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Religious Liberty and the Ministerial Exception

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An upcoming Supreme Court decision might give government, rather than religious organizations, the final say on who counts as a religious minister.
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Down Syndrome Awareness Makes a Difference

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New research on Down syndrome presents an overwhelmingly positive picture of how Down syndrome can affect individuals and families. These findings need to be shared as they will affect decisions made to accept prenatal testing and following a prenatal diagnosis.
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Can Neuroscience Tell Us Anything About Virtue?

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In a new bestseller, David Brooks contends that the “new sciences” point to the incredible reality and importance of old-fashioned things like education, character formation, and virtue.
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Go to Jail and Get a Seminary Education?

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Religious conversions can be pivotal in turning an inmate away from a life of crime, but only if the process of spiritual transformation continues outside the prison walls.
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Don’t Put the Brain on Trial

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Pure scientism is insufficient as a basis for criminal justice.
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Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited

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The Judiciary doesn’t have the final word on the meaning of the Constitution, and Congress could step in to protect the 14th Amendment rights of the unborn.
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Capital Punishment, Dignity, and Authority: A Response to Ed Feser

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Nothing that a man does can change his nature as man, and so, considered in himself, it will always remain wrong to kill him. This should be the final judgment of practical reason when brought to bear on the question of capital punishment.
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In Defense of Capital Punishment

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If one accepts the legitimacy of punishment and the principle of proportionality, then it is impossible to claim that capital punishment is intrinsically wrong.
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Promised Objectivity: Americans Receive Planned Parenthood Ideology

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The HHS mandate on contraception is based on insufficient research and betrays the committee’s deep pro-contraceptive bias.
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Progressive Impiety

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Slandering their fathers while energetically progressing “somewhere,” the progressive is always in a position of impiety.
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Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare

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A recent rule issued by the Obama administration threatens our nation’s healthcare by attacking the consciences of our nation’s healthcare providers.
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Preventing Another Attack: International Religious Freedom

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The advancement of international religious freedom is crucial for terrorism’s defeat.
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Declaration of War: Ten Years Later

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Under the Constitution, the Constitution prevails over international law. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), signed into law ten years ago this week, prescribed no time limitation or geographical limitation. It was, potentially, a world war of unlimited duration. And yet, our involvement in Libya is unconstitutional.
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Let’s Talk about Abortion: A Response to Dennis O’Brien

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Fetal killing imposes a serious bodily harm on an innocent human being. The law should prohibit abortion just as it does other serious harms to the well-being of persons, such as assault, rape, kidnapping, and theft.
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