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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>
				<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></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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		<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[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>
		<category><![CDATA[college students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></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>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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9101</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8970</guid>
		<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>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>
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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euthanasia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8385</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=7587</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6926</guid>
		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/company-uses-cells-from-abortions-to-test-artificial-flavors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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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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		<title>After Same-Sex &#8216;Marriage&#8217; the Sky&#8217;s the Limit</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/after-same-sex-marriage-the-skys-the-limit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/after-same-sex-marriage-the-skys-the-limit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LGBTweekly.com: The Irish edition of tabloid news magazine The Sun recently covered the story of Penny Lawrence, a 28-year-old woman suffering from Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) who is now pregnant with her father’s child. If you seriously don&#8217;t think there are folks waiting in the wings for same-sex &#8216;marriage&#8217; to set the legal precedent they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Joseph comes home</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/30/baby-joseph-comes-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/30/baby-joseph-comes-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mariette Ulrich Update on ‘Baby Joseph’ Joseph Maraachli, dubbed “Baby Joseph” by the media, is making a good recovery after receiving a tracheotomy at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. (from eCanadaNow) The procedure was performed as an important first step in transitioning the 1-year-old to a nursing facility, before allowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t kill. And don’t make me help you die.</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/25/don%e2%80%99t-kill-and-don%e2%80%99t-make-me-help-you-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/25/don%e2%80%99t-kill-and-don%e2%80%99t-make-me-help-you-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas And don’t make me lie about knowing you’re killing yourself, either. Since euthanasia laws are in place in some of our states now, and that movement is spreading like a cancer, some basic reminders are in order. Like the ones in this column. People requesting suicide assistance are not required to tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;30 dead embryos are the price paid for one healthy child&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Miller The German parliament is debating a ban on whether to legalise screening embryos for unwanted genetic traits. Not every innovation is beneficial. The 1997 film Gattaca is a dark tale of what can happen when a society genetically engineers its offspring. The story is told through the eyes of a human who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and&#8230; Planned &#8216;Parenthood&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/10/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-planned-parenthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JillStanek.com: Julie Rovner, NPR health policy correspondent: Well, the conflict is really that PP keeps its statistics according to the percent of those services that are provided, not according to how many people get what&#8230; Sarah Stoesz from PP kind of misspoke when she said it was 3% of patients who come in get abortions. [...]]]></description>
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