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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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Killing the Extremist Idea that Threatens America: Counter Fear with Freedom

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We must oppose violent extremists in part by promoting freedom of religion, both at home and abroad. Part two of two.
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Killing the Extremist Idea that Threatens America: The Misalliance of Muslims and Secularists

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The deepening relationship between American Muslims and secular liberals ignores fundamental issues of faith and freedom. Part one of two.
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Women, Abortion, and the Brain

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Women are hard-wired for relationships—and a woman’s relationship to her baby is one of the most powerful of all, whether she realizes it or not. The hard-wiring of the brain may explain many women’s disturbing post-abortion feelings.
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Inflammatory Disrespect

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The reason to respect others' religious beliefs is not the fear that they might attack us, but rather the minimum demands of decency. This standard should apply to all religious groups.
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Distracted by the Mosque

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The controversy over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” cannot be understood apart from the history of other communities and their struggles to overcome religious intolerance. And no one should exploit such fears for quick partisan gain.
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The Obama Administration and the Treatment of Human Embryos

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An Executive Summary of the Statement of the First Annual Neuhaus Colloquium.
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The Mosque’s Lesson on Loyalty

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It is natural and good to have loyalty and love for one’s own.
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The Moral Impossibility of Ignoring Fanatics

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A review of The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal.
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Obama’s Illegal Stem-Cell Policy

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Obama’s stem-cell policy is not only contrary to sound reason and good science, it violates the law.
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The Stealth Abortion Pill

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The so-called “week-after pill” is an abortion drug hidden under the guise of contraception.
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The New Path to Pro-Life Health Care Reform

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In order to protect the unborn, we need to recognize mistakes made in the past and work to remedy them in the present.
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A Concluding Argument about Abortion in Health Care

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Arguments have been aired. The facts are in. It’s time for all pro-lifers to acknowledge the shortcomings of the new health care bill.
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Small Steps Toward Justice

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A Review of Clark Forsythe’s Politics for the Greatest Good
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A Health Care Challenge to Commonweal and Timothy Jost

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Recent events suggest that Commonweal and Timothy Jost need to reassess their arguments about health care and abortion
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Marriage and the Reign of Judges

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The latest decision from our judicial overlords on same-sex marriage spells trouble for republican constitutionalism and the institution of marriage.
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How the New Health Care Law Endangers Conscience

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The new health care law has endangered longstanding protections on conscience. We must act to address them or risk creating a dangerous precedent.
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Health Care, Abortion, and the Call of Conscience

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Under the new health-care law, pro-lifers may have to accept inferior health plans, rather than wrongly pay into abortion providing ones.
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Conservatives, Abortion, and Contraception

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More on the red-state blue-state abortion debate: a response to Koppelman, Carbone, and Cahn
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Remembering the Pill

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The fiftieth anniversary of oral contraceptives is a reminder of all the things the Pill lets us forget.
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Health Care and the Abandonment of Pro-Life Principle

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In a first-time feature, the editors of Public Discourse respond to the editors of Commonweal.
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Pornography and the Muslim World

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Promoting a sexually permissive pop-culture in the Muslim world gets the true foundations of ordered liberty wrong. In defining our ideals by rejecting our enemy’s, we go from one extreme to another, and miss the virtuous mean.
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Exporting Death to Kenya

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America’s abortion laws may inspire a dangerous provision in Kenya’s new constitution.
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How Red States Reduce the Abortion Rate: A Response to Andrew Koppelman

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Andrew Koppelman’s claim that red states and the religious right increase abortions doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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How Jihadist Education Breeds Violence

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The nature of children’s education matters to jihadists. It should matter to us, too.
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