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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.

Wrongful Executions and the Pro-Life Movement’s Responsibility 

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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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Islam’s European Reformation?

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The controversial Tariq Ramadan’s latest book promotes a “Western” version of Islam. Is he the “Muslim Martin Luther”?
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Muslim “Leaders” Adding Fuel to the Swiss-Minaret-Ban Fire

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It’s hard to credibly demand religious liberty when one is in the minority if one refuses to grant it when one is the majority. The principle “do unto others as you would have done unto you” should be a guiding ideal for all sides in the Swiss minaret controversy.
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Bad Reason and the ‘Manhattan Declaration’

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A good deal of online commentary about a recent ecumenical statement misunderstands the nature of human reason.
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How to Stop the Next Detroit Bomber

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In response to the would-be Detroit bomber, Yemen wants more helicopters to counter terrorism. But there is no indication helicopters would have stopped him or that, over the long run, they will put an end to the activities of al-Qaeda enthusiasts. Counterterrorism efforts need to take hearts, minds, and wills seriously.
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Duty and Disability

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Having spent 20 years wrongly diagnosed as in a persistent vegetative state, Rom Houben reminds us that disabled persons are capable of many more substantive opportunities for human fulfillment than we are initially inclined to believe. But is bodily life just as such worth preserving? Can care-givers rightly remove hydration and nutrition?
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Economic Liberalism and its Discontents

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If we are to restore confidence in free markets, we need a robust explanation of their moral value.
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The Post-Nuclear Family

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It is no simple matter to care for aging parents. But in the face of an uncertain future, concrete steps can be taken to make an unusual option more attractive.
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The Conscientious Engagement of Yves Simon

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Yves Simon's fierce moral intelligence highlights the sad decay of our public deliberation, but his example also gives cause for hope.
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