Author Archive for Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Why the Prophetic Voice of Pope Paul VI Still Matters
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Why the Prophetic Voice of Pope Paul VI Still Matters

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by on Sep 19, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Evangelization, Featured, History
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Those of us who live in prosperous countries may not realize the full impact of the contraceptive ideology around the world. You know the ideology I mean: everyone old enough to give meaningful consent is entitled to unlimited sex without a live baby showing up. We tend to think governments should allow people to obtain […]

Pro-Choice Puritans
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Pro-Choice Puritans

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by on Aug 23, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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For a very short time, Puritanism was the dominant religion in America. The need to populate a large continent led to lots of immigration of lots of people from different religions. Since then, we Americans have developed a sardonic definition of “Puritan:” a person with the nagging feeling that somewhere, someone is having fun. We […]

Elite Women Wage Social Warfare on Everywoman
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Elite Women Wage Social Warfare on Everywoman

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by on Jul 11, 2016 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Women
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So a radical feminist and two childless women walk into a courtroom. How do you expect them to rule on abortion or contraception? Their lives as they know them, depend on both. In Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Texas law regulating abortion clinics as if they were any ordinary […]

Don’t Feed the Trolls – It Just Encourages Them
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Don’t Feed the Trolls – It Just Encourages Them

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by on Jul 01, 2016 in Apologetics, Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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As an observer of the human species, I believe I have discovered a new type. I call them “paid internet protesters,” or “PIPs” in internet-speak, who are all armchair culture warriors. Dr. Rachel Lu, a senior contributor at The Federalist, wrote an article called, “The LGBT Movement Will Self-Destruct.” My response was titled, “The LGBT […]

Why Everyone Should Oppose Surrogacy
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Why Everyone Should Oppose Surrogacy

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by on Jun 01, 2016 in Catholic Bioethics, Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Reproductive Technology, Women
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I am an outspoken critic of gestational surrogacy, in which the gestational mother carries a child to term for another person or couple. I have noticed that many people do not understand the stakes in this issue. Pro-life people think, “Gosh, surrogacy makes babies, how can that be bad?” Feminists think, “Gosh, surrogacy allows people […]

In an Industry that Makes People, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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In an Industry that Makes People, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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by on Apr 28, 2016 in Catholic Bioethics, Featured, Parenting, Reproductive Technology, The Homosexual Agenda
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Sperm donation, egg donation and surrogacy: Third party reproduction seems to be a “done deal” in Western society. Even ardently pro-life people do not seem to see the problems. Hey, these techniques are making babies, not killing them. So what could possibly go wrong? A lot of things can go very wrong. Let me describe […]

Latest Pope Francis Controversy and Why Non-Catholics Should Care
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Latest Pope Francis Controversy and Why Non-Catholics Should Care

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by on Apr 15, 2016 in Canon Law, Contraception & Abortion, Education, Featured, Marriage
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Non-Catholics may be wondering why Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia or The Joy of Love, has Catholics in an uproar. Has the Pope changed Catholic doctrine? Has he left the doctrine officially intact, but changed pastoral practice so much that the doctrine is annulled? Now that I have taken the weekend to read it, […]

Male Privilege and Women's Bathrooms
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Male Privilege and Women’s Bathrooms

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by on Apr 11, 2016 in Featured, Law & Justice, Men, The Homosexual Agenda, Women
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has become a whipping boy for the advocates of the latest round of the sexual revolution. The Human Rights Campaign has gathered a bunch of business owners to bully the governor in an attempt to get him to back down. “Your bigotry is bad for business,” is their mantra. […]

A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’
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A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’

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by on Nov 12, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, The Homosexual Agenda
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The policy proposal known as “same-sex marriage” is actually a proposal to redefine marriage. Instead of being a gender-based institution oriented toward the procreation of children and the good of the spouses, what is called “same-sex marriage” makes marriage into a genderless institution, oriented toward the good of adults only. Any possible negative consequences for […]

Making Noise, Not Arguments
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Making Noise, Not Arguments

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by on Aug 01, 2012 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda, The Social Order
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In my work as a social conservative, I have been puzzled by some of the rhetorical strategies of my opponents. Sometimes I feel my head spinning, as if I have been going around in circles, with no obvious conclusion in sight. I have been seeking the key to understanding them, a Rosetta Stone that will […]

Remembering Chuck Colson
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Remembering Chuck Colson

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by on Apr 25, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics, Those in Need
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I am greatly saddened by the death of Chuck Colson this past weekend. I have always been grateful to Chuck for his kindness toward me. I was a part-time research fellow and a full-time mother when he began talking about my first book, “Love and Economics.” There was absolutely nothing for him to gain by […]

Why Opposing the Gay Lobby is Not Anti-Gay
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Why Opposing the Gay Lobby is Not Anti-Gay

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by on Apr 04, 2012 in Featured, Marriage, The Homosexual Agenda
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Earlier this month the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) “Commentator Accountability Project” included me on their list of people who deserve special scrutiny before they can be engaged as commentators on the marriage debate. But it is organizations like GLAAD that need to be held accountable for the impact of their rhetoric on […]

How Hedonism Became America’s Official Religion
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How Hedonism Became America’s Official Religion

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by on Mar 29, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics
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No, I’m not exaggerating. The American experiment in religious liberty is officially over. The First Amendment provided institutional structures that allow different religions to peacefully coexist. All groups agree to not try to capture governmental structures for the benefit of their own particular denomination. But the Obama administration has ended that truce. The administration made […]

How the West’s Fertility War Has Left Women at Risk
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How the West’s Fertility War Has Left Women at Risk

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by on Feb 22, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men Mara Hvistendahl Public Affairs, 2011; 314 pages, $26.99 This brave and timely book has many strengths and one glaring, but understandable, weakness. The strength of this book is the reporting. Mara Hvistendahl, a liberal, pro-choice feminist, painstakingly documents the catastrophic […]

You are Accountable: Address to Wash. State Lawmakers on Same-Sex Marriage
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You are Accountable: Address to Wash. State Lawmakers on Same-Sex Marriage

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by on Feb 06, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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I am here today to address those of you who have already made up your minds to redefine marriage.  History will not be kind to you.  Previous generations of social experimenters have caused unimaginable misery for millions of people.  Particular people advocated the policies that led to today’s 50% divorce rate and 40% out of […]

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A Response to Keith Ablow

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by on Jan 03, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Celebrity therapist and “life coach” Dr. Keith Ablow just jumped on the “let’s get the government out of the marriage business” bandwagon. I have been writing against the “privatizing marriage” mantra, going all the way back to 2005. (See also here and here.) I do not wish to rehearse those arguments here. But Dr. Ablow’s […]

No Standing: What Marriage Radicals Really Think of “The People”
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No Standing: What Marriage Radicals Really Think of “The People”

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by on Sep 22, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Last week’s hearing in the California Supreme Court on whether the proponents of Prop 8 have standing to defend the measure in court seemed to go well for the defenders of natural marriage. But another issue lies beneath the surface of the court arguments. The issue is what kind of people are the marriage redefiners: […]

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Loved into Existence, Part 2: Science Consistent with Christian Belief

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by on Aug 08, 2011 in Featured, Marriage
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Dr. Morse gave this speech April 23, 2011, at Hong Kong Baptist University, at a conference of Western and Chinese scholars, entitled “The Family and Sexual Ethics: Christian Foundations and Public Values.” China is experiencing numerous problems due to family breakdown, including the one child policy, high divorce rates, and an imbalanced sex ratio. This […]

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Loved into Existence, Part 1: What Christians Believe

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by on Aug 04, 2011 in Featured, Marriage
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Dr. Morse gave this speech April 23, 2011, at Hong Kong Baptist University, at a conference of Western and Chinese scholars, entitled “The Family and Sexual Ethics: Christian Foundations and Public Values.” China is experiencing numerous problems due to family breakdown, including the one child policy, high divorce rates, and an imbalanced sex ratio. This […]

You Are Not Called to Be a "Gender-neutral, Generic Person"
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You Are Not Called to Be a “Gender-neutral, Generic Person”

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by on Jul 07, 2011 in Featured, Parenting
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[Dr. Morse’s Commencement Speech to Providence Academy High School, Delivered June 3, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.] Faculty and Students of Providence Academy; Class of 2011; parents, friends and benefactors: this is a wonderful and memorable day. For many of you, graduating from high school was always a foregone conclusion. So maybe you feel this day […]

Husband's Day
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Husband’s Day

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by on Jun 22, 2011 in Featured, Marriage
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Father’s Day is a day for honoring fathers. But I would like to take a step back and honor men as husbands. In our enlightened, liberated era, we have a tendency to overlook men as husbands, since the father is so often not the husband of the mother. But without some kind of connection between […]

Testimony for Minnesota State Senate Hearings on Same Sex Marriage
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Testimony for Minnesota State Senate Hearings on Same Sex Marriage

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by on May 09, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Prepared remarks for the Judiciary Committee of the Minnesota State Senate, hearings on same sex marriage Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage April 29, 2011 St.  Paul Minnesota www.ruthinstitute.org   We are here to consider giving the citizens of the State of […]

The Incoherence of Federal Sex Policy: Title X, Medicaid, and the <em>Eisenstadt</em> Decision
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The Incoherence of Federal Sex Policy: Title X, Medicaid, and the Eisenstadt Decision

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by on Mar 27, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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In a 1972 decision widely hailed by the political classes, the Supreme Court opined in Eisenstadt v. Baird, “If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right to be free from unwarranted government intrusions into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.”1 Imagining that […]