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Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee holds the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Chair of Bioethics, and is the Director of the Center for Bioethics, at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the author of three books (Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, with Robert P. George, 2008) Abortion and Unborn Human Life, 2010), Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters, with Robert P. George, 2014), and of numerous scholarly and popular articles. He has testified to the US House of Representatives, addressed the Workshop for United States Catholic Bishops, and has spoken and debated on various topics at Universities such as Boston University, Baylor University, Catholic University of America, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Notre Dame.

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Human Embryos are Human Beings: a Scientific and Philosophical Case

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In Human Embryos, Human Beings, A Scientific and Philosophical Approach philosopher Samuel Condic and Neurobiologist Maureen Condic advance a careful and detailed case for the proposition that a human being comes to be at fertilization, and refute the main arguments to the contrary. Along the way they clarify the concepts of substance, substantial form, soul, organism, and final and formal causality.

Embryology and Science Denial

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The HHS has recently—and rightly—described life as beginning at conception. Dr. Richard Paulson’s denial of this claim contradicts the standard scientific position, and his arguments against that claim are fallacious and inaccurate.

The Soul: Not Dead Yet

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The traditional philosophical and theological concept of the soul allows us to integrate what the empirical sciences reveal with what we know about ourselves as rational and moral beings.

Marco Rubio Is Right: The Life of a New Human Being Begins at Conception

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Senator Rubio is on the firmest possible scientific ground when he says that science shows that the child in the womb, from the very point of successful fertilization, is indeed a human being.
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Marriage Redefinition and a Lifelong Commitment

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The commitment to be faithful to one’s spouse—for better, for worse, in sickness and in health—is not a pledge to keep the same feelings. It is a pledge to do certain things, to voluntary conduct.

Total Brain Death: Valid Criterion of Death

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Total brain death is a valid criterion for pronouncing the death of human beings.

HHS Mandate: Unjust (as well as Illegal)

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To recap two major problems with the HHS mandate: it restricts the natural right of religious freedom and imposes a false view of religion.

The Same-Sex “Marriage” Proposal is Unjust Discrimination

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The conjugal conception of marriage is just and coherent; the same-sex marriage proponents’ conception of marriage is unjust and incoherent.

Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments

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Defenders of conjugal marriage must be careful to not obscure the true nature of marriage—and the state’s true interest in promoting it.

Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection

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There is an intrinsic link between marriage and procreation, but this does not mean that infertile couples cannot really be married.

Obama on the Value of Human Life: How About Some ‘Vigorous’ Debate?

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President Obama has called for vigorous debate on the abortion question. For that to happen, though, his own position must be clarified. The picture that emerges is not a flattering one.

Why Marriage is Inherently Heterosexual

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A recent story in Newsweek claimed that the only reasons for opposing same-sex “marriage” are religious. But there are powerful arguments for marriage rooted not in faith but in reason.
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