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The American Constitution: Why It Endures
by Dr. John A. Sparks
September 17th is Constitution Day.
Tag: "moral foundations of law"
Politics and Theology — The Mormon Implications
by Mary Kochan
As the 2012 presidential election nears, Romney’s Mormon religion has, by necessity, been taken off the table as an issue for most Christians. Thanks to the actions of the Obama administration — with our freedom so imperiled and our nation’s fiscal house so shaky — the troubling aspects of Romney’s religious affiliation, have faded into the […]
Intellectual Sabotage
by Judie Brown
Sometimes a writer will say things that are so outlandish that even my grandmother, God rest her soul, would have been angry. Now, mind you, Bertha Tekla Baldi was never one to raise her voice, but the meandering gobbledygook of Mr. David Hampton, editorial director of the Mississippi’s Clarion Ledger, might have even gotten a […]
The Incoherence of Federal Sex Policy: Title X, Medicaid, and the Eisenstadt Decision
by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
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 […]
But Is the Human Embryo a Person?
by Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P.
by Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. on Feb 11, 2011 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion 
Some commentators have argued that human embryos are individual human beings but they add that they are not human persons because they cannot sense or think or feel or desire. Consequently, it is argued that human embryos do not have moral status and thus cannot claim any rights including the right to life. Only human […]
