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The Truth About Women and Abortion — Lasting Trauma

Guilt, distress, and mental trauma among women who have experienced an abortion are far more common and long-lasting than abortion rights proponents have claimed. Researchers with the Norwegian Council for Mental Health and the University of Oslo eva ...

December 13, 2005

The Surrogate’s Song — A Sign of Our Confused Times

Writing in the December 11, 2005 edition of the New York Times, Lisa Baker describes her experience as a surrogate mother. Her self-portait as a surrogate should serve as a warning of what happens when reproduction is severed from marriage and the pr ...

December 12, 2005

Separation of Sex and State?

Carol Platt Liebau thinks that if "religious" messages are to be censored in public because they offend secularists, then sexual messages should be curtailed as well. Writing in the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times, she argues that enough is e ...

December 12, 2005

Why December 25? Don’t Believe What You’ve Heard

Gene Edward Veith, World Magazine's indispensable culture editor, sets the record straight on December 25 in the magazine's December 10 issue. According to conventional wisdom, Christmas had its origin in a pagan winter solstice festival, which the ...

December 12, 2005

Don’t Blame Me — The Machine Did It

News reports out of Israel indicate that the nation's parliament has devised a way to allow for euthanasia without violating Jewish law, which forbids human action in taking human life. According to The Telegraph [London], the legislators came up wit ...

December 9, 2005

Slavery — Alive and Well in Our Times

Uriah Kriegel, who teaches philosophy at the University of Arizona, reports that slavery is alive and flourishing in some regions of the world. "Not many Americans know it," Kriegel explains, "but December 2 was International Abolition of Slavery Day ...

December 8, 2005

Our Mission Field — The MySpace Generation

Just last week, I released a major commentary on the dangers of teenage blogging. In "Courting Dangers Online--Teenagers and the Internet," I reported on the fact that many teens and young adults are putting themselves at risk by revealing intimate d ...

December 8, 2005

The Disappearing Doctrine of Hell

Belief in hell is fast disappearing in Scotland, according to press reports. Reporter Donald MacLeod points to the fact that one third of Scottish clergy "still believe in the existence of hell." Of course, that means that the other two-thirds have d ...

December 7, 2005

Parental Notification and the Absolutism of the Abortion-Rights Movement

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley identifies himself as "pro-choice," but he sees a dangerous absolutism in the abortion movement. Writing in USA Today, he argues that the movement's opposition to parental notification laws r ...

December 7, 2005

Boys Will Be Boys — Just Try to Deny the Obvious

Steve Sailer reviews Leonard Sax's new book, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences in the current issue of The Claremont Review . Sax's book is truly important, presenting some of the ...

December 6, 2005