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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; ethics</title>
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		<title>The Importance of Dignity: A Reply to Steven Pinker</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/06/the-importance-of-dignity-a-reply-to-steven-pinker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/06/the-importance-of-dignity-a-reply-to-steven-pinker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Christopher Kaczor January 31, 2012 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/01/4540 From its ancient Stoic origins to its modern Kantian formulations, human dignity is an important concept for sound ethical thinking. Doing so requires that we distinguish dignity as attributed, dignity as intrinsic worth, and dignity as flourishing. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist,is well known for his 2008 article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland Bishops&#8217; Statement on Religious Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/23/maryland-bishops-statement-on-religious-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/23/maryland-bishops-statement-on-religious-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage Redefinition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catholic Bishops of Maryland have issued a statement, &#8220;The Most Sacred of All Property:  Religious Freedom and the People of Maryland.&#8221; Despite its title, the principles it lays out and the examples it uses are applicable to the entire United States.  People of all faiths, not just Catholics, will find it a helpful defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Girls Looking for “Sugar Daddies” Abound</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/college-girls-looking-for-%e2%80%9csugar-daddies%e2%80%9d-abound/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/17/college-girls-looking-for-%e2%80%9csugar-daddies%e2%80%9d-abound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hook-up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This used to be called prostitution&#8211;now it&#8217;s just debt reduction: &#8230;There is a plethora of on-line dating sites, calling themselves arrangement sites, where young women looking to pay down college debt are matched to older, wealthy donors. What is not advertised, but is clearly understood by reading young women’s confessionals in a recent Huffington Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Human in an Age of Unbelief</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/08/being-human-in-an-age-of-unbelief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/08/being-human-in-an-age-of-unbelief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human dignity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Charles J. Chaput November 8, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/11/4256 Four points in defense of human dignity. Adapted from an address delivered last night at the University of Pennsylvania. Most of my sources in this essay are not Catholic. That shouldn&#8217;t be surprising. Catholics have no monopoly on respect for human dignity. Catholics do have a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pepsi shareholders demand company stop using aborted fetal cell lines in flavor research</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/26/pepsi-shareholders-demand-company-stop-using-aborted-fetal-cell-lines-in-flavor-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/26/pepsi-shareholders-demand-company-stop-using-aborted-fetal-cell-lines-in-flavor-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SO GROSS! A little cannibalism, anyone? by John-Henry Westen LARGO, FL, October 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life organization Children of God for Life announced today the filing of a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission and PepsiCo, protesting the use of aborted a fetal cell line for the research and development of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Family Values</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/18/traditional-family-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/18/traditional-family-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Last week my daughter, Moriah Mosher, who is 18 years old, traveled to Rhodes, Greece, where she addressed the Rhodes Youth Forum on the subject of “Traditional Family Values.” The Forum is an annual meeting of young people from all over the world who are devoted to the search for the common good. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death penalty in America</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/05/death-penalty-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/05/death-penalty-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital punishment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas The fact that there’s a disparity is not the main point. Its existence is the problem, in whatever form it takes. By now it’s worldwide news that two high profile executions took place in the US this week. The fact that it shocked the world may or may not have shocked American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t drink the Kool-Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/04/dont-drink-the-kool-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/04/dont-drink-the-kool-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marcia Segelstein In the not too distant past, traditionalists theorized that when it came to raising children, the answer was to retreat from the world.  Use private or parochial schools.  Or even better, homeschool.  Raise up a generation of kids who would change the world by trying to raise them outside the world. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Market Babies and the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/black-market-babies-and-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/26/black-market-babies-and-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Jo Anderson The current battles over the fate of thousands of babies conceived via in vitro fertilization would confound even King Solomon. Sensational news reports surrounding the $180,000 price tag for Ukrainian black-market babies shocked the determinedly secular segments of society, and few remain unmoved by the story of the FBI’s round-up of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sterilisation in India</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/23/sterilisation-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/23/sterilisation-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marcus Roberts Recently the UK newspaper, the Independent, has published an article about the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan in India, where there is a statewide target to sterilise 1% of the population. Of course the state officials cannot do so through coercion &#8211; that would be too much like eugenics! And last time that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too much information?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/23/too-much-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/23/too-much-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assisted Suicide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Margaret Somerville The PR department of a hospital thought so, but patients are entitled to consider all sides of an issue such as euthanasia. The ethics of communication – whether over-communication or under-communication &#8211; have been in the news over the last few months. WikiLeaks , the Murdoch press affair in Britain, and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Men who buy sex commit more crimes</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/26/study-men-who-buy-sex-commit-more-crimes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/07/26/study-men-who-buy-sex-commit-more-crimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adultery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This doesn&#8217;t surprise me: BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; Men who pay for sex are more likely than men who do not pay for sex to commit a variety of offenses including violent crimes against women, according to research conducted in the Boston area. The study, released this week, was based on interviews with 202 men conducted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Prenatal DNA Testing Open Pandora’s Box?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/12/could-prenatal-dna-testing-open-pandora%e2%80%99s-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/12/could-prenatal-dna-testing-open-pandora%e2%80%99s-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=7674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A follow-up to Betsy&#8217;s post on pre-natal DNA testing: That knowledge has a flip side. “How much responsibility are we expecting people to take for the genetic makeup of any child they might have?” asks Josephine Johnston, a research scholar at the Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank near New York City. If a child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-post-modernism advances in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/07/post-post-modernism-advances-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/07/post-post-modernism-advances-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bryan P. Bradley Hungary&#8217;s “iPad constitution” is the latest challenge to secularist, anti-family trends in Europe. In case you had not noticed, Hungary has a whopper of a new constitution that is giving the European Union and other international organizations something to think (and gripe) about. Critics call the text&#8217;s reference to Christian heritage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The congressman, the bishop and moral economics</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/06/the-congressman-the-bishop-and-moral-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/06/the-congressman-the-bishop-and-moral-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=7594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas I forget who said ‘not everything is political’, but it must have been a while ago because it seems now, everything is. But certainly, every issue is a moral issue, and somebody’s morals are going to prevail. When it comes to making law and setting social policy, it’s good to hear top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallup poll: young Americans left behind on family values</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/06/gallup-poll-young-americans-left-behind-on-family-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/06/06/gallup-poll-young-americans-left-behind-on-family-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan A new Gallup poll about moral issues in the US shows that Americans are most in agreement about marital infidelity and polygamy, with 91 per cent of people polled considering an extra-marital affair morally wrong and 86 per cent saying polygamy is immoral. Only two other issues come near a national consensus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deny conscience and redefine ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/23/deny-conscience-and-redefine-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/23/deny-conscience-and-redefine-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 17:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=7450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas And still call it health care? Yes, in many places. Start with Sweden. The Swedish parliament has overwhelmingly passed an order instructing Swedish politicians at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to fight against the rights of doctors to refuse to participate in abortions. Read that again. The Swedish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Bans &#8216;Telemed&#8217; Abortions</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/01/arizona-bans-telemed-abortions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/01/arizona-bans-telemed-abortions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from LifeNews.com: HB 2416 bans the practice of abortion via webcam, also known as telemedicine. Considering the well-documented dangers of abortion pills, women should be able to meet in person with a doctor before ingesting a dangerous chemical&#8230; Abortion-via-webcam is just another example of how Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry are concerned with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Reason To Be Wary Of ART</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/one-more-reason-to-be-wary-of-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/one-more-reason-to-be-wary-of-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday there was a segment on NPR titled Taming The Twin Trend From Fertility Treatments. They talked about how various forms of ART have caused an increase in the incidence of twin pregnancies: Twins, once a rarity to marvel over, are now a common part of American culture, thanks in large part to increased use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company Uses Cells From Abortions to Test Artificial Flavors</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/company-uses-cells-from-abortions-to-test-artificial-flavors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pro-life group that monitors the use of cells from babies victimized by abortions is today highlighting a biotech company, Senomyx, which it says produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products. How could this possibly be happening?!!! I don&#8217;t even know what to say&#8230;]]></description>
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