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Let’s Talk about Abortion: A Response to Dennis O’Brien

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Fetal killing imposes a serious bodily harm on an innocent human being. The law should prohibit abortion just as it does other serious harms to the well-being of persons, such as assault, rape, kidnapping, and theft.
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Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America

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John Locke is a deep cultural well from which we still can draw good water.
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Keynesianism, Social Services, and Solvency

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Growing national debt-to-income ratios need not become a threat to American solvency or a long-run impediment to implementation of our social policy choices. Historically-based approaches to social objectives can be improved through advances in economics.
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Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life, and Human Dignity

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Intentional killing is always wrong, and support of capital punishment often stems from a misunderstanding of the nature of human dignity.
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Global Warming, Evolution, and Presidential Politics: The Long Shadow of Galileo

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Judging from the media’s response to Rick Perry’s Galileo reference in the Reagan debate, our discourse is still governed by the modern view that science and religion can only clash.
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Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life

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As the proponents of assisted suicide strive to legalize it in Massachusetts, we should take another look at their arguments and the deceptions therein.
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Memorializing September 11th

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What makes September 11th worthy of public memorializing is that it was not only an event in the lives of these individuals and their families; it was an event in the life of the American nation, an attack aimed at the American nation.
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My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture

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America should reject torture. This would reinforce our commitment to America’s founding values and support excellence in intelligence collection for the defense of our nation.
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Flogging: The Best Hope for Our Broken Prison System?

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A new book argues that flogging may be a more humane, efficient, and just punishment than incarceration.
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End Human Trafficking: A Contemporary Slavery

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A culture of exploitation and violence, especially sexual exploitation of children, is at epidemic levels here in the United States and around the world. The current Administration’s response is anemic and more must be done.
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End Child Pornography: Enforce Adult Pornography Laws

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Ending child pornography is as much a matter of vigorously prosecuting those who distribute adult pornography as it is a matter of prosecuting child pornographers. Presidential candidates should pledge to initiate adult pornography criminal cases and fund research into the adult-child pornography link.
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Empower Parents: Restore the Constitution by Returning Educational Policy to the States

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Presidential candidates in the 2012 election must be prepared to protect the interests of parents and children nationwide by rolling back the progressive education agenda and returning to the states their constitutional power to make decisions about education.
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Promote Democracy: Start at Home, but Don’t Stop at Home

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At a time when the Arab world is ripe for change, our next president must understand the strategic potential of American credibility, constitutionalism, and communication in the promotion of democracy abroad.
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Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue

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Public officials—especially the President—are obligated to protect the intrinsic equal dignity of all human beings, regardless not only of sex and race, but also without regard to age, size, condition of dependency, vulnerability, or the esteem of others. Abortion and embryo-destructive research are profound and lethal violations of this principle of equality to which the law (and the President) must respond.
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Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond

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Introducing a Public Discourse symposium on the 2012 election.
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Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence

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New York’s new sex education mandate excludes abstinence-only options and forces all city school children to learn about “safe sex” in the sixth and seventh grades.
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Nation of Faith, Nation of Immigrants

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America’s laws and institutions come from a moral worldview shaped by Christian belief. They depend not on where her people came from, but on what they are willing to sacrifice to keep the experiment alive. Adapted from a keynote address delivered to the national gathering of CALL (Catholic Association of Latino Leaders).
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Perry, Prayer, and Politics

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Rick Perry’s prayer rally engendered accusations that he wrongly crossed the church-state divide. But great leaders in American history have long held that religion is a necessary basis for public morality.
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Pornography and National Security

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The frequency with which terrorists are found with pornography raises important questions about the possible effects of pornography on our national security.
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Republican and Classically Conservative in 2012

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An important book from the 1980s can teach today’s Republican presidential candidates the importance of classical conservatism.
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Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith-Based Approaches to Crime

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Prejudices of secular and religious groups alike stand in the way of successful crime reduction efforts.
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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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Contracepting Conscience

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The new, pro-contraceptive recommendations by the Institute of Medicine endanger the health and well-being of women.
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