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Why Easy Stem Cells Raise Hard Ethical Questions

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A surprising new method for making stem cells offers scientists an easy alternative to destroying human embryos. But there is a disturbing possibility that the technique may create not stem cells but actual cloned embryos.
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On Abortion Rates: Good News and Cause for Reflection

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American abortion rates are falling significantly. Although the Guttmacher Institute tries to hide the chief causes of this trend, cutting through the spin reveals that pro-life laws and attitudes help reduce the abortion rate and the abortion ratio.
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College Athletics and the Common Good

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If we looked at actual young men and women, and not abstractions, we might begin to think of other things besides the ratio of members of each sex participating in this or that activity. We might think about love.
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What a Progressive Used to Be

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In the past, progressives fought to defend the family because they understood that families protect us from the atomization and amalgamation that isolate and control us.
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The Mother-Free Money Tree

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If we believe that human beings should not be for sale and should not be trafficked or manufactured like products, and if we believe that women deserve better than to be treated as mere baby machines, then we must oppose third-party reproduction.
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We Need a Real Women’s Agenda, Not Government-Funded Abortion

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By passing HR 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, Congress could settle the matter of federal funding for abortion once and for all, and start addressing the real needs of American women. Adapted from testimony delivered before the House Judiciary Committee on January 9, 2014.
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The State Marriage Defense Act

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The age in which all states were united in understanding marriage as the exclusive union of man and woman for life has passed away. Now, new legislation seeks to protect the right of each state to define marriage for those who reside within its borders.
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Constitutional Soundness of Ultrasound Requirements

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“Informed choice” legislation does not impede a woman’s ability to choose abortion. Such laws enlighten the abortion choice by making clear exactly what it is that is being chosen.
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Motherhood and Career: A Thrilling Tug of War

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The home and the office pull in opposite directions, but modern mothers can assemble a team on both ends of the rope to help them manage that tension—and they can learn to thrive in the process.
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Love and Unity: Sexual Ethics in the Modern World

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One Body, by Alexander Pruss, melds rigorous philosophical analysis and insightful moral theology to advance a clearly-articulated system of sexual ethics based on the call to love.
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Authentic Feminine Excellence

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Women should not view professional success and loving motherhood as at odds with each other. Instead, women ought to cultivate an authentic and creative form of excellence that engages the whole person, with all her talents, in relation with others.
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Praying in Greece

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Judicial precedent, historical awareness, and the very nature of prayer all make it clear: legislators have the right to begin their assemblies with a prayer.
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The Global Fight for Children’s Rights: Europe

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Underground movements in England and France are beginning to counter the global LGBT ideology that has entrenched itself in the governments of First-World nations.
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Illusions of Unity? Mind, Value, and Nature

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Is it wrong to study the natural sciences using a metaphysical framework that sees unity in reality?
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Moral Anthropology, Social Ontology, and Authentic Human Freedom

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The late Jean Bethke Elshtain understood that human beings are inherently relational, arguing that families are essential for human flourishing.
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Why Is It So Difficult to Discuss Marriage?

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Redefining marriage will bring profound and perhaps unintended consequences for the ways in which we think of ourselves as men and women, and for the kind of society we live in. Adapted from the Foreword to The Meaning of Marriage (2006).
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Dissecting Political Correctness

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To resist the manipulative forces of political correctness, we must speak out and overcome the social isolation that breeds silence.
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The New Article of Faith for Canadian Law Schools: Same-Sex Marriage

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More evidence from Canada of the danger of allowing the endorsement of same-sex marriage to become a prerequisite to participation in public life.
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Lessons on Conscience Protection from the UK

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Unless Americans respond to the Supreme Court’s recent marriage decisions with greater protections for the rights of conscience, our first freedom is sure to lose force, just as it has in the UK.
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The Declaration of Independence and the American Creed

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The Declaration of Independence contains the clearest, most concise, and most eloquent articulation of the American creed: a political definition of man in two axioms, and three corollary propositions on government.
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Threats to Religious Freedom in Europe

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By failing to recognize the importance of religion and its relationship to human rights, European courts are progressively eroding religious liberty.
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Mitt Romney’s Bad Day

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Gabriel Schoenfeld’s new book, A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign, offers an insider’s account of how misguided campaign tactics led to Mitt Romney’s defeat in the 2012 presidential election.
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Yes, Marriage Will Change–and Here’s How

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The sexual permissiveness of men will emerge a winner in the contest of ideas as same-sex marital norms begin to shape the larger institution of marriage.
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Small-Town Saints for Our Placeless Age

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In The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher eulogizes his little sister with a hagiography worthy of St. Therese herself, while also evaluating his own relationships—to people and to place—according to the virtue of stability proposed by St. Benedict.
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