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The Human Person

The first pillar of a decent society is respect for the human person, which recognizes that all individual human beings have dignity simply because of the kind of being they are: animals whose rational faculties allow them to know, love, reason, and communicate. It also recognizes that human beings are persons, members of the human family who flourish in a community that respects their fundamental rights and who long to discover transcendent truths about the nature of reality.

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The Caregiver’s Lesson

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Those who care for the severely disabled and dependent testify to our sense that they are part of the human community.
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The Family: What Is to Be Done?

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Marital love implies dependence on another instead of autonomy, and it shows that certain goods (sex and procreation, love and marriage, marriage and parenthood) are connected. We must recover the language of self-giving. The second in a two-part series.
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Same-Sex Marriage and Human Fulfillment

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Public recognition of unions contrary to human flourishing will hurt, not help, the happiness of those who participate in them.
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God and Terror

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Whether or not one likes religious actors, they are here to stay. The issue is not whether but when and how religious actors will enter public life and shape political outcomes. The third in a three-part series.
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God and Democratic Diplomacy

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We can no longer afford to hang on to secularization theories as we design policy for nations from Libya to Egypt, Iran to Pakistan, Nigeria to Indonesia, and the numerous other societies being reshaped by the partisans of God in the 21st century. The second in a three-part series.
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God and Political Science

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The view of global politics taught by political scientists is the poorest possible preparation for the era of global politics in which we now live. As we address central geopolitical challenges, we must delve into the details of religion and religious actors. The first in a three-part series.
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Democratic Bioethics and Eugenics

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Prominent bioethicists Arthur Caplan and Robert P. George on the role of bioethics in a democracy and the dangers of eugenics.
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Stem Cells: The Scientists Knew They Were Lying?

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Prominent bioethicists Arthur Caplan and Robert P. George on the danger of discounting ethics and overselling science.
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Terry Jones’ Lethal Recklessness

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A person bears moral responsibility for the foreseeable side effects of his reckless actions.
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Hadith and Apostasy

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The part of the Muslim tradition usually cited in support of killing apostates has been gravely misunderstood.
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Equal Basic Rights for All, Born and Unborn

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Not only those with a “future-like-ours,” but all human beings possess equal basic rights.
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Where the Abortion Debate Stands

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A new book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and even-handed presentation of the abortion argument.
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The Prenatal Testing Sham

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On this year's World Down Syndrome Day, Mark Leach discusses the unacknowledged effects of prenatal testing.
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The Progressive Case for Conscience Protection

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Have progressives abandoned the liberty of conscience?
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Roe to the Rescue?

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Roe v. Wade could prove an unlikely source of pro-life conscience protection.
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Obama’s Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA

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President Obama has dropped the defense of marriage out of political convenience rather than reasonable opposition.
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Bernard Nathanson: A Life Transformed by Truth

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A man who made a career of death and lies became a hero for life and truth.
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The Quranic Case Against Killing Apostates

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A leading Muslim scholar questions whether foundational texts of Islam really do prescribe death for leaving Islam.
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Repelling the Attack on Conscience

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A new bill is needed to fix the healthcare law’s failure to adequately safeguard conscience
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Did Pius XII Lie to Save Jews?

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A historian looks at how one man sought to serve both truth and love.
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Political Responsibility and Exceptionless Moral Norms

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What exceptionless moral norms are we willing to discard for the sake of a good cause?
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Speaking Truth to Evil

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The Live Action case is very different from the Nazis-at-the-door problem, but lying is justified in neither situation.
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When Speaking Falsely is Right

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All lying is immoral, but not all false utterances are lies.
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Now is the Time to End Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

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The history of federal abortion funding highlights the urgent need to reverse the new health care law’s assault on unborn life, and to enact a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding of abortion.
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