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40 Years Later: How to Undo the Autonomy Argument for Abortion Rights

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In response to pro-choice appeals to autonomy in support of abortion, we feminists should advocate that parents—both mothers and fathers—have binding duties to their unborn child as the product of their life-giving sexual act.
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One Man, One Woman, and the Common Good: Marriage’s Public Purpose

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The state should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, because the state’s interest in marriage is fundamentally about public, not private, purposes for marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered before the United States Senate.
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Philosophy, Marriage, and Moral Grandstanding

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In a discipline whose point is dispassionate reasoning and discourse, some would shut down debate and silence dissenters on a deep and complex moral-political issue. And the view they would anathematize, far from irrational, is more coherent and more compelling than their slippery and ill-defined 'default'.
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The Vocation of a Doctor

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Doctors are called to a life of compassionate service to human beings invested with intrinsic dignity. This essay is adapted from the Commencement Address Dr. Landry delivered at the St. Louis University School of Medicine.
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Islam Will Find Its Own Way to Freedom

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With extremism losing momentum, there is hope that the Muslim Middle East is beginning once again to embrace the liberalism of early 20th-century Islam.
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Let Freedom Ring: The Muslim Call for Religious Freedom

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As the call for freedom advances in Muslim-majority countries, we have good reason to be optimistic that religious freedom will increase as well.
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Sexual Revolution: Built Upon Sand

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The body has a language of its own, and the sexual revolution is founded upon a lie.
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Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy

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Our current economic debates underscore the case for an approach to political economy that rejects social contract theory and embraces a robust conception of human flourishing.
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Kenji Yoshino’s Dream of Discorporation

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Rather than trying to escape our bodies, we should see that our bodies make union with another possible.
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Closing the Door on Education Innovation

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The feds are working behind the scenes to nationalize K-12 curriculum, including a national test. This would be bad for schools, and disastrous for the culture.
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What Marriage Has Become

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Marriage is fundamentally a pre-political institution.
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Business vs. the Market

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Public employee unions aren’t the only seekers of government largesse.
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Repelling the Attack on Conscience

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A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience
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Speaking Truth to Evil

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The Live Action case is very different from the Nazis-at-the-door problem, but lying is justified in neither situation.
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Now is the Time to End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

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The history of federal abortion funding highlights the urgent need to reverse the new health care law’s assault on unborn life, and to enact a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion.
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Truth, Love, and Live Action

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The pro-life cause must be advanced by truth and by love, and it must be willing to engage in self-criticism when it fails to meet its own exacting standards.
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Sex Gone Wrong

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On the dualism of degrading desire.
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Risk, Uncertainty, and Rule of Law

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An uncertain legal landscape puts future prosperity at risk.
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Scorpions: A Review of FDR’s Supreme Court Justices

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A new book by Noah Feldman explains how Roosevelt’s jurists came to power, and how their constitutional philosophies and disagreements shaped the court.
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The Lazy Slander of the Pro-Life Cause

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Do pro-lifers care about life after birth?
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Incest and the Degradation of Our Vocabulary

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What’s wrong with a prominent professor’s incestuous relationship with his daughter.
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Marriage: Merely a Social Construct?

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A response to Northwestern Law Professor Andrew Koppelman.
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Christmas and Western Civilization

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Though Christmas is a religious holiday, secularists should appreciate its great contribution to Western Civilization: the lesson that all men are equal in their fundamental human dignity.
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Pro-Lifers and “Repeal and Replace”

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We need a healthcare law that is not only pro-life but that also addresses our healthcare system’s persistent problems and looming challenges.
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