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The Real Reason to Criticize Roe

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Pro-lifers need to better understand the history of the pro-life movement and what Roe did to it.
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Abortion Promises Unfulfilled

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Forty years after Roe v. Wade, the promise that legal abortion would guarantee fewer out-of-wedlock births, less child abuse, and lower crime rates remains unfulfilled.
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Forty Years Later: It’s Time for a New Feminism

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A feminism that promotes abortion as the key to women’s freedom does not help us flourish, preserve our dignity, or protect us from evils. We must support women so that the “choice” between life and abortion is no longer difficult because life is the natural choice.
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On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: A Public Discourse Symposium

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Witness to the truth matters for its own sake, but persistent, winsome witness also tends to bear good fruit, even if it takes 40 years and counting.
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We Must Preserve the Founders’ Classical Vision for Our Nation’s Capital

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The plan of our nation’s capital and the architecture of its core buildings and monuments must carry on the classical vision the Founders intended as the physical manifestation of America’s form of government and political ideals.
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Conscientious Abortions? We Don’t Need New Laws Protecting Abortionists

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A recent argument that abortion providers deserve the same legal protection as pro-life medical providers is philosophically flawed and ignores legal and popular consensus on the evil of abortion.
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Law’s Logic at the End of Life

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To its detriment, Howard Ball’s new book on end-of-life law focuses more on the emotions and biases of the law’s defenders than on law’s history and content.
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Bringing Marx into the Abortion Debate

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Two points can best persuade young people about abortion: our need for laws that protect the weak and vulnerable and the deadening of conscience that often accompanies pro-choice sentiment.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Social Change: Exceeding the Speed of Thought

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Michael Klarman’s history of the push for same-sex marriage shows just how recently it’s developed and how its leaders lack substantive arguments for the nature and purpose of marriage itself.
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The HHS Mandate and Judicial Theocracy

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If we are to preserve our First Amendment rights, judges must refrain from telling plaintiffs challenging the HHS mandate that they’ve got their theology wrong.
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It’s a Wonderful Country: Pottersville or Bedford Falls?

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In the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the humane society of Bedford Falls is built on conservative principles, not contemporary liberal ones.
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Jefferson’s Robust Views of Religious Freedom

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Notwithstanding his unorthodox views of Christianity, Thomas Jefferson staunchly adhered to the rights of all religious believers, Christian and non-Christian alike, to free religious exercise.
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Beyond Wishful Thinking: A Response to Schlueter

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“Natural law liberalism” is a chimera that cannot and does not exist in the American tradition.
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Science and the Politics of Personhood

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Science can and should help determine sound public policy on matters that involve basic human rights.
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Moral Neutrality, Marriage, and the Supreme Court

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A recent ruling in the United States District Court in Hawaii reveals a rational basis for the Supreme Court to rule on a morally neutral basis that marriage can be enshrined in law.
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Sustainable Liberalism

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The solution to the political and moral crisis of our time does not lie in abandoning liberalism or in defending Lockeanism. It rests in the recovery of natural law liberalism—a sustainable public philosophy that is true to reason, to nature, and to Christian belief.
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Planned Parenthood and the Government v. Religious Liberty and Women’s Wellbeing

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An unprecedented campaign against religious liberty, characterized by a formidable alliance between the White House and Planned Parenthood, bolstered by money, power, and market branding, is threatening women’s well-being. The first in a three-part series.
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I’m Socially Conservative, in College, and Need a Party

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Students across the country have been pushing back against liberal dominance, but we cannot solve the problem on our own. We need the full support of our party and conservative allies.
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Better than Our Philosophy: A Response to Muñoz

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Our Founding liberal principles aren’t the best invocation against inhuman practices like slavery and abortion because they also produce self-aggrandizement, individualism, willfulness, and a conception of liberty as the absence of constraint.
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The Abolition of Man-and-Woman: On Marriage, Grammar, and Legal Strategy

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Preserving marriage as a union of man and woman is bound to fail unless we address the true point of contention in the marriage debate, one completely ignored by even the best legal advocates for redefining marriage: the question “what is marriage?"
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Same-Sex Marriage Ten Years On: Lessons from Canada

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The effects of same-sex civil marriage in Canada—restrictions on free speech rights, parental rights in education, and autonomy rights of religious institutions, along with a weakening of the marriage culture—provide lessons for the United States.
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Free Speech, the Supreme Court, and Neutral Principles

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Judge Robert Bork argue that the First Amendment gives the people greater deference to determine legitimate speech than the courts.
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Taxed for Wearing Their Heads

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The Anti-Federalists’ early fear about Congress’s taxing power—that it would result in a tax on humans’ very existence—are now realized in the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.
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Public and Religious Education: L’État, C’est Tout

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There is no good reason to be suspicious of people of faith. There is every reason to encourage them and to be grateful for them, because even by worldly standards they make good citizens. But the State does not want to keep separate from the churches. It wants to absorb them.
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