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Margaret Datiles Watts, J.D.

Little Sisters, Big Rights And The Supreme Court

Posted: December 3, 2015
By: Margaret Datiles Watts, J.D.

On November 6, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear the case of The Little Sisters of the Poor, the fourth legal challenge to Obamacare heard by the Court since Obamacare was passed. Why is this case significant? The Court will finally take up a key constitutional question that it did not touch in the Hobby Lobby case: Does the government have a “compelling interest” in ensuring that American employers pay full coverage for contraception and abortion drugs for their employees? Read

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Angry Relatives? Or Wounded Souls…

Posted: December 1, 2015
By: Frank J. Moncher, Ph.D.

Mixed emotions are natural. And while it is true that “feelings are not right or wrong, they just are,” there actually is a proper ordering to emotions. In time, negative emotions that are properly ordered can be resolved. However, emotions which are disordered are never resolved. They simply continue to arise again and again, frustrating family and family gatherings year after year. What can be done in such cases? Read

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Abortion, The Mother’s Life, And The Principle of Double Effect

Posted: November 19, 2015
By: Dr. Pilar Calva, M.D.

Imagine a pregnant woman diagnosed with uterine cancer and the only treatment alternative is a hysterectomy which would likely save her life, but surely end in the death of the child. Absent any action, both are expected to die. In such an instance, is the loss of the child permissible? The answer is simple, but the logic is worth understanding well. Read

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The United Nations’ Agenda: False Premises Buttressed By Willful Ignorance

Posted: November 17, 2015
By: Steve Soukup

Late last month, the United Nations adopted what it calls its Agenda for 2030. It reads in part: “We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.” This is a sweet sentiment, I suppose, but it is also, to put it mildly, nuts.
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NIH Debates Allowing Human-Animal Chimeras

Posted: November 10, 2015
By: Dr. Pilar Calva, M.D.

Chimeras are formed by combining genetically-distinct cells, in this case human cells and animal cells. In 2005, the U.S. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine recommended limits on such research, but 10 years later, they have reopened the debate. Where objections are rightfully raised, language is twisted and manipulated to disguise the truth of what is taking place, making an ethical analysis of a complex situation even more complex. Read

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Hypnosis: Healing Art or Dangerous Dehumanization?

Posted: November 5, 2015
By: Frank J. Moncher, Ph.D.

Hypnosis, familiar to many from movies and comedy acts, has been used by psychotherapists to treat a variety of disorders. Recent news reports, however, question whether a school principals’ use of hypnosis may have contributed to the deaths of three students. In light of those things which make us fully human, among them being conscious of self and able to determine freely our own actions, is it ever licit or even neutral to accede control to another? Read

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Nihilism, Heroic Doubling And The Crisis Of Violence

Posted: October 29, 2015
By: Steve Soukup

Faced with the emptiness of their own lives, isolated from many of their contemporaries, and desperately in search of something substantive to give their lives meaning and purpose, young men – and especially young men who find refuge on the internet and in social media – tend to create fantasy lives for themselves, alternate realities in which they not only find the meaning and purpose they crave, but do so in heroic fashion. Read

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International Effort To Prohibit Surrogacy

Posted: October 27, 2015
By: Dr. Pilar Calva, M.D.

Arising from altruistic, though misplaced, intentions to aid couples that cannot conceive, surrogacy has become a multi-million-dollar business. The main argument used to justify surrogacy is the supposed right to a child, but there is no such right of one person over another. People are not things and cannot be made so. Most simply, surrogacy is the exploitation of women for reproductive purposes. Read

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Abortion And Hyperbolic Political Rhetoric

Posted: October 22, 2015
By: Steve Soukup

For most of the last century, the distinctions between the political Right and Left have been obvious and unchanging: hawks vs. doves; big government vs. small government; labor vs. capital; rich vs. poor, and so on. Today, however, the parties are generally unable to distinguish themselves from one another with respect to these measures, and in some cases, have actually swapped positions. So how can they capture the voters’ attention… Read

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Do Women Need Planned Parenthood? (Part II)

Posted: October 20, 2015
By: Margaret Datiles Watts, J.D.

Testifying under oath, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards admitted the following (i) Planned Parenthood does not, and has never, performed mammograms; (ii) Planned Parenthood offers no surgical procedure other than abortion; (iii) Planned Parenthood makes 86% of its money from abortion; and (iv) community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities. Respecting this last point, the ratio nationally is 20:1… Read

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