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Why Sperm Donation is Bad for Dads and Kids

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Commercialized sperm “donation” degrades and objectifies men, promotes a culture of irresponsible parenting, and hurts children conceived through donation. The first of a two-part series.
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Truth, Metaphor, and Race in the Marriage Debate

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Whatever same-sex marriage is, that’s not what gays are after. They are after a symbolic vehicle that can make them equal to people who can do something they cannot—procreate.
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The Least of These

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Our government has failed to admit that its own selfishness is the root of many societal problems it has tried to address.
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The Wealth of Nations Depends on the Health of Families

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Family, church, and school are the three basic people-forming institutions, and it is no wonder that they produce the best results—including economic and political ones—when they cooperate.
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Reflections of a Former Fetus and Former Incubator

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Radical pro-choice rhetoric attacks the most basic facts of our human existence: that the human body comes in two different but complementary types, male and female. They cannot forgive women who embrace femininity rather than neuter themselves.
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Is Religion Outdated in the Twenty-First Century?

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Religion isn’t outdated simply because some people claim that we can only know what the natural sciences tell us. Philosophy and theology are the next steps in our search for truth about nature, human nature, and God.
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The Paradox of Persons Forty Years After Roe

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The Roe Court’s suppression of a foundational question—who is the law for—means that the decision could be overturned by any of several feticide cases that could reach the current Court.
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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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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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Lessons from France on Defending Marriage

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Unlikely characters, including gay men, are leading the French people in protest against redefining marriage. A repeating refrain is “the rights of children trump the right to children.” Americans should follow their example of mobilizing across party lines.
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The Meaning of Place in America: How and Why it Shapes Lives

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While globalized technology promises to make human beings more like each other than ever, our places of residence and origin still differentiate us, whether by shaping our cultural beliefs, our habits, or our manners.
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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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Sneering Social Constructionists

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Sneering at persons who are not social constructionists has become commonplace. Until defenders of inherent virtues, natural laws, divine beings, and other things that transcend social reality learn to overcome this initial set-up, they will be forever on the defensive.
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Porn Use and Supporting Same-Sex Marriage

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Young adult men’s support for redefining marriage may not be entirely the product of ideals about expansive freedoms, rights, liberties, and fairness. It may be, in part, a byproduct of regular exposure to diverse and graphic sex acts.
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A Man for This Season, and All Seasons

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There is only one Thomas More: A man of tender nobility, subtle intellect, and forceful conviction, all rooted in profound fidelity to the larger commonwealth of Christendom outside and above Tudor England.
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Can the President Have a Marriage Agenda Without Talking About What Marriage Is?

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How successful can a “new conversation on marriage” be when its leaders can’t even say what marriage is?
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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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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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Contraception and Women’s Wellbeing: Physical Health, Happiness, and Religion

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Poor women will bear the brunt of government promoted contraceptive programs, along with its problematic side-effects. While contraception does not manufacture female happiness as its proponents suggest, religion can. The third in a three-part series.
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Contraception and Women’s Wellbeing: NFP, Disillusionment, and the Poor

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Contraception isn’t the only way to plan a family, and it certainly isn’t cost-free: contraception leads to sexual disillusionment and weakens the marriage culture at the expense of the least well-off women. The second in a three-part series.
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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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Reason and Compassion in the Marriage Debate

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In their book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George draw our attention to the question that matters most in the marriage debate—what marriage is—and make a reasonable and compassionate argument for marriage as a one-man one-woman union.
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The Future of Marriage: “Why The Inevitable” Is Not Inevitable

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Public opinion, the methods and messaging of LGBT activists, and social reality all converge on a simple fact: marriage is worth fighting for and we can win.
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