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Moral Federalism: Does A President's Abortion Policy Matter?

George F. Will says "no." Many, perhaps most, Americans, foggy about the workings of their government, think that overturning Roe would make abortion, one of the nation'

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Washington Briefing Dispatch: Straw Poll Results

This is going to be all over the web in, oh, 30 seconds or so, so I figured I'd announce it here at Mere-O as well. The

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Washington Briefing Dispatch: Rick Santorum

Not much of interest to me happening this afternoon, except hearing from Stephen Colbert lookalike Rick Santorum (HT: Amy Hall for pointing out the remarkable similarity). Eloquent and intelligent, Santorum

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The Politicization of Bioethics

The NY Times reported last Wednesday that three former Surgeon Generals had felt pressure from their respective administrations to suppress stories for political reasons. The story was a precursor to

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The Echoes of Eugenics: Lord of the Rings and the Value of Human Life

In a recent column in the Washington Post, Andrew J. Imparato and Anne C. Sommers highlight the subtle ways in which eugenics has made a comeback: Some 72 years later,

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Cliff's Notes: The Supreme Court's Decision on Partial Birth Abortion

Mere O neighbor and friend Richard Radcliffe has done the dirty work of extracting the choice quotations from the Supreme Court's recent opinion upholding the Partial Birth Abortion

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From Death unto Life: The Pro-Life Position and the Presence of Death

In late January, I wrote this essay for a Pro-Life symposium that it seems never materialized. In it, I included this claim: The pro-life position is fundamentally about

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Chatting with Ramesh: Notes from a Blogger's Conference Call with Ramesh Ponnoru

This last week I had the privilege of joining a blogger's conference call with Ramesh Ponnoru, a smart guy who writes over at The Corner and has written

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More About Evangelicalism

Matthew L. Anderson linked to an article by Dr. Matt Jensen of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola a few days ago, which sparked some fruitful discussion in the comments

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Essays to Live By: Smart Guys on Diverse and Sundry Topics

I spent the last hour reading a few very, very good essays and interviews. I was only intending to spend 15 minutes or so, but the more I read the

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Whence Wither? Here.

A friend pointed out this article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Discovery Institute member Wesley Smith. In it, he looks "into the crystal ball about the controversies that

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Pro-Life Post

It's not very often that we post something related to pro-life issues, but Robert George's summary of a pro-life event at Princeton caught my