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Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, had the following remarks about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the US Supreme Court: ‘President Obama has chosen a nominee with a compelling personal story over a judicial pick with a solid constitutional judicial philosophy. A compelling personal story is no substitute for allegiance [...]

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Diogenes at Catholic Culture has a brilliant analogy that illuminates the difficulty in having reasoned discourse with today’s abortion culture. Here’s a teaser (for the rest, you’ll have to visit the site): I see nothing wrong with swatting flies. Let’s say that you have a different opinion. You think the lives of flies are sacred, [...]

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The Washington Post and other news outlets are reporting that President Obama will announce Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the US Supreme Court at 10:15 CT. As we might expect, Wikipedia already has been updated. Noted the Post on May 7, Sotomayor would probably be a reliably liberal vote on a court split into [...]

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In an op-ed piece in yesterday’s The New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat mentions “The Paradox of Declining Female Unhappiness,” a paper by economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers. Based on the paper’s abstract found at the National Bureau of Economic Research, it might be worth the five bucks’ purchase price: By many objective measures [...]

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Update # 2: The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, but will allow approximately 18,000 same-sex couples married in the State to keep their licenses. You can read more about it at the Los Angeles Times. Here’s an update with Q&A from Tuesday’s (May 26) Los Angeles Times. Notes National Review Online, This is the [...]

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If you would like to see the four most recent polls on abortion and how each shows Americans are trending towards pro-life thinking, click on Jill Stanek’s blog. Question: How should pro-abort politicians take these polls into account?

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Reports The New York Times: The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers. Mrs. Clinton said the policy change addressed an inequity in the [...]

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Business First reports that adult bone marrow stem cells may provide a way to repair damaged retinal tissue, based on research done at the University of Louisville. The findings are an important step toward helping people who experience vision loss and blindness as a result of age-related macular degeneration and hereditary retinal degeneration, the university [...]

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In addition to presenting some of the latest news in bioethics, culture, and morality as well as occasional commentary, we at Bioethike hope to provide some assistance in thinking through difficult issues from an orthodox Lutheran, or traditional Christian, perspective. So, may we present the first installment of “Stretch Your Noodle,” in which we’ll present [...]

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Rather, reports Wendy Wright at LifeNews.com, Melody Barnes, the Director of Domestic Policy Council and a former board member of Emily’s List, said that the administration’s goal is to “reduce the need for abortions.” Not the subtle use of language. Translation: 1) push comprehensive sex education, including infertile homosex behavior, through the public education system [...]

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