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		<title>Regarding the Department of Health &amp; Human Services (HHS) Mandate:</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/regarding-the-department-of-health-human-services-hhs-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never before in our U.S. history has the Federal Government forced citizens to directly purchase what violates our religious beliefs. The issue here . . . is the survival of a cornerstone constitutionally protected freedom that ensures respect for conscience and religious liberty. -Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston This latest erosion of our first freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Tells Catholic Chaplains What They Can and Can&#8217;t Say About Obama Administration&#8217;s Assault on Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/military-tells-catholic-chaplains-what-they-can-and-cant-say-about-obama-administrations-assault-on-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/military-tells-catholic-chaplains-what-they-can-and-cant-say-about-obama-administrations-assault-on-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jim Hoft Last week Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan lashed out at the Obama Administration for forcing religious organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience. The rule would force Christian organizations to provide free contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion drugs to workers even though this violates Catholic Church teaching. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re All Catholics Now</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/we%e2%80%99re-all-catholics-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/we%e2%80%99re-all-catholics-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By David French I’m not the first to comment on the Obama administration’s breathtaking assault on religious liberty, I won’t be the last, and I’m certainly not the most eloquent. I am, however, a lawyer prepared to do something about it. At issue are two competing visions of religion in American public life. For the Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s Hostages</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/planned-parenthoods-hostages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/planned-parenthoods-hostages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The abortion provider uses a vast media and political network to maintain its subsidies from government and private charities. By ROBERT P. GEORGE AND O. CARTER SNEAD The Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization dedicated since 1982 to fighting, and one day curing, breast cancer, decided to extricate itself from the culture wars by discontinuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 150 congressional leaders demand repeal of HHS mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/over-150-congressional-leaders-demand-repeal-of-hhs-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/over-150-congressional-leaders-demand-repeal-of-hhs-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michelle Bauman A letter from 154 bipartisan members of Congress is urging the Obama administration to reverse a contraception mandate that religious employers say would require them to violate their consciences. The Feb. 6 letter to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, condemned the recent mandate as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Things Everyone Should Know About The HHS Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/six-things-everyone-should-know-about-the-hhs-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February 6, 2012 WASHINGTON— The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers the following clarifications regarding the Health and Human Services regulations on mandatory coverage of contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. 1.The mandate does not exempt Catholic charities, schools, universities, or hospitals. These institutions are vital to the mission of the Church, but HHS does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did we learn from the Komen-PP fiasco?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/what-did-we-learn-from-the-komen-pp-fiasco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/what-did-we-learn-from-the-komen-pp-fiasco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas It has been deeply revealing and we have learned much. First of all, that the relationship existed. After all the years of doubt or uncertainty by many contributors to the Pink Ribbon campaign over whether the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure donated some of those funds to Planned Parenthood, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tightening the screws</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/tightening-the-screws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by James S. Cole The Obama Adminstration is attacking religious rights by mandating that all health-care plans, even church-run one, must provide cover for abortion and contraception. On January 11, the United States Supreme Court reproved the Obama Administration by issuing a 9-0 decision against the Government in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message from Chuck Colson</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/message-from-chuck-colson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/message-from-chuck-colson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Co-laborers, We must all act together NOW. What is going on today is the greatest test of religious liberty we will have faced in our life time. If the administration does not back down, religious liberty—as clearly articulated in the Constitution and in court cases—will be gravely impaired.  And your organization, like mine, will face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen Get It</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/komen-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By JAMES TARANTO Planned Parenthood&#8217;s bitter campaign against Komen&#8211;aided by left-liberal activists and media&#8211;is analogous to a protection racket: Nice charity you&#8217;ve got there. It&#8217;d be a shame if anything happened to it. The message to other Planned Parenthood donors is that if they don&#8217;t play nice and keep coughing up the cash, they&#8217;ll get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the world as we know it</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Jennifer Roback  Morse 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Coast Walk for Life&#8211;a student&#8217;s perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/west-coast-walk-for-life-a-students-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/08/west-coast-walk-for-life-a-students-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pro-life Movement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Margaret Kelledy. I am a senior at Azusa Pacific University, and the President of our Students for Life chapter. I have been an avid pro-life activist for nearly nine years but I was never able to attend a Walk for Life until this year. As I walked through the streets of San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen official quits over Planned Parenthood dispute</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-dispute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/komen-official-quits-over-planned-parenthood-dispute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Charlie Butts Komen initially decided to stop providing funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion-provider in the country. It had reportedly adopted new criteria excluding the clinic chain from future grants for breast cancer screenings because it was under government investigation at the urging of pro-life groups. But after being bombarded by abortion proponents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen disgraces its own cause</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/komen-disgraces-its-own-cause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/komen-disgraces-its-own-cause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Heck Call it Planned Parenthood&#8217;s war on choice. In less time than it takes to scald a child to death with a saline injection into the womb, the rabid pro-abortion lobby descended like vultures down upon the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. The Komen crime? They dared exercise their right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Morse on Contagious Transformation radio show</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/dr-morse-on-contagious-transformation-radio-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/dr-morse-on-contagious-transformation-radio-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Roback Morse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to listen. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D,  discovered and elucidated an unstated assumption made by Adam Smith, the founder of modern-day economics. Smith, and with him most of modern economics, took for granted that somehow helpless children grow into functioning adults capable of making contracts, keeping promises and having empathy for others.  In other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About gender</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/about-gender/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/about-gender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Here&#8217;s a little food for thought about gender &#8211; a quote from a long article in Prospect magazine in which philosopher Roger Scruton reviews three books contributing to the nature-nurture debate. This quote is from a section in which he argues, against the view of the philosopher Jesse Prinz, that biology does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Prop 8 Decision Was No Surprise</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/why-prop-8-decision-was-no-surprise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/07/why-prop-8-decision-was-no-surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Prop 8 Trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE JAMES R. BROWNING COURTHOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA – “The decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold Judge Walker’s radical decision overturning Prop 8 comes as no surprise,” said Catholics for the Common Good President William B. May. “We always knew this case would be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How divorce ruins children’s lives</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/06/how-divorce-ruins-children%e2%80%99s-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/06/how-divorce-ruins-children%e2%80%99s-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by William West A new study on divorce, looking at the complete spectrum of research on the subject, confirms what most people already know – even if they are not willing to admit it: divorce causes “irreparable harm” to the whole family, but  particularly to the children. There have been plenty of individual studies exposing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More time online = less happiness among girls</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/02/06/more-time-online-less-happiness-among-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teenagers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Girls who spend a lot of time using multimedia seem are less happy and socially comfortable than peers who spend less time on screens, a study from Stanford University suggests. Researchers came to that conclusion after analysing an online survey taken by 3,400 8- to 12-year-olds. The survey was offered through Discovery [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bioethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human dignity]]></category>

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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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