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Honoring an Early Pro-Life Democrat

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Ellen McCormack’s 1976 presidential campaign offers today’s pro-lifers a valuable example of incrementalist strategy.
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Do Sports Build Character?

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The recent Penn State scandal reminds us that if sports are to instill moral character, we must approach athletics first as an education in the virtues, not as an avenue to fame and wealth.
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Religion as a Community-Bonding Fiction

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Although religion and God-belief are in some sense an illusion for Jonathan Haidt, they are seen as an often salutary fiction insofar as they help people to overcome their self-centeredness and direct their efforts to a greater collective good. The first in a two-part series.
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What Can We Learn from the Stem Cell Debates?

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A report from The Witherspoon Council, a newly-formed bioethics body, argues that even the noblest aspirations of the scientific enterprise must be guided by ethics and governed under political authority.
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Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View

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The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there. The last thing we should do is make them feel guilty if the strain gets to them and they feel strange.
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A Eugenics Common Sense?

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Calling fetuses defective if they are prenatally diagnosed with genetic conditions foreshadows a dangerous path toward eugenics.
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Building a Culture of Religious Freedom

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If we want a culture of religious freedom, we need to begin it here, today, now. We live it by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to God with passion and joy, confidence and courage; and by holding nothing back. God will take care of the rest. Adapted from remarks delivered yesterday at the Napa Institute’s 2012 annual conference.
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Abortion, Conscience, and Health Care Provider Rights

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A faulty understanding of conscience as an instrument of subjective preferences and feelings is fueling efforts to undermine conscience protection for doctors who oppose abortion and provision of contraceptives.
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The Economic Crisis and Europe’s Rule of Law Problem

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Close attention to particular decisions by European institutions and governments before and during the present economic crisis suggests that many have significantly infringed the rule of law.
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Religious Freedom Under Fire

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The threats to religious freedom in our nation are real, and they’re serious. And things will get worse unless we defend our rights. The first in a two-part series.
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Expertise and Ethics

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The virtuous life is an art; and one learns art not from theorists but from the artists themselves.
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Here’s Twenty Bucks: Don’t Have Babies

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Melinda Gates and the Family Planning Summit will waste 4.6 billion dollars on contraception for women in third world countries instead of addressing the educational and healthcare-related challenges pregnant mothers face.
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The White House and Sexualityism

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Against what social science tells us about human happiness, the government is promoting sexualityism—a commitment to uncommitted, unencumbered, inconsequential sex—as the answer.
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Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Legal Movement

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The clash between Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion and that of the joint dissenters is best seen as a clash between two visions of judicial restraint, and two eras of the conservative legal movement.
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey at Twenty: The Worst Constitutional Decision of All Time

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In its effects, methodology, substantive doctrine, conception of the judicial role and of judicial authority, and conception of what constitutes the rule of law, Casey is terribly significant and terribly wrong. The first in a two-part series on the deadly significance of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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At the Door of the Temple: Religious Freedom and the New Orthodoxy

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The new orthodoxy of secularism fails to understand that the virtues generated by religious freedom underpin and encourage a healthy democracy.
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Bigotry, David Blankenhorn, and the Future of Marriage

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The truth about something as important as marriage cannot be the price we pay to live with each other. The challenge of our time is to find new ways to combine truth and love. Giving up marriage is too high a price to pay. And it is not the last good we will be asked to surrender, unless we find the courage to stand.
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The Newest Front in the Battle over Marriage

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Same-sex marriage should not come in the back door, via an arguably collusive lawsuit in which no one charged with the responsibility of enforcing the law actually defends it.
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Supreme Court Take Notice: Two Sociologists Shift the Ground of the Marriage Debate

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Judges and justices who reasoned in favor of same-sex marriage based on social scientists’ “no differences” thesis must now contend with better research: Heterosexual married couples offer the best family structure for children, according to a new, rigorously researched sociological study.
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim

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Two new peer-reviewed studies show that family structure matters and children do best when reared by their married biological mother and father.
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Franciscan, Ave Maria, and Obamacare

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Two Catholic universities’ decisions to drop student health-care plans show Obamacare’s long-term goal: Force Americans to choose government-subsidized plans over no insurance at all.
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What’s Behind the HHS Mandate?

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The HHS mandate illustrates three liberal ideological commitments that treat religious freedom as an afterthought.
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Abortion and the Limits of Philosophy

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Unlike civil rights advocates of the 1960s, pro-life and pro-choice activists can be ambivalent about their causes because they are torn between their reason and their sentiments.
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Why Birtherism Won’t Die

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Birtherism survives as an unreasonable surrogate for the public discussion that the left has stifled.
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