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A tarnished gold standard

Michael Cook | 16 August 2009 |
tags: embryo, stem cell research
The last-ditch defence for experimenting with human embryonic stem cells is that they are a “gold standard” for stem cell research. Nonsense.

What’s love got to do with it?

Alejo Jose G. Sison | 13 August 2009 |
tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic social teaching, Christianity, economics
A business ethicist offers a professional view of Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical on ethics in business, 'Caritas in veritate'.

Babies have a right to a heritage

Brenda Almond | 13 August 2009 |
tags: slavery, surrogacy
Fertility clinics are creating a new class of dispossessed human beings, says a British philosopher. 

Nigeria’s citadel of injustice

Chinwuba Iyizoba | 13 August 2009 |
tags: Africa, Britain

The United Kingdom prepares to repatriate Nigerial prisoners to a country whose justice system appears to be riddled with injustice



Is Obama running out of time?

Godfrey Hodgson | 12 August 2009 |
tags: healthcare, Obama, US politics
Barack Obama's stalled healthcare-reform plan reveals how crucial features of the American political system operate.

Iran’s plummeting birth rates

Michael Cook | 11 August 2009 |
tags: demography, economics, family planning, Islam, population control
Despite its fundamentalist Islamic reputation Iran has experimented with birth control with some unexpected, and unwelcome, consequences.

Perilous quest for perfection

Margaret Somerville | 10 August 2009 |
tags:
Imperfections are part of what makes each of us unique and if we eliminate them, we risk losing our souls. 

Dissecting the caveman theory of psychology

Denyse O'Leary | 10 August 2009 |
tags:
Is human behaviour really based on the survival strategies of our Pleistocene ancestors?


Attacking the Bible: an artist’s false bravado

Brian Lilley | 08 August 2009 |
tags: art, Chrstianity, Islam
A Scottish art gallery attacks the Bible, goes easy on the Koran. Should we be surprised?

The business of looking after the family

Nuria Chinchilla | 07 August 2009 |
tags: family, work-life balance
Only if they act responsibly towards the family can businesses and society at large thrive.

UN Disabilities Treaty does not create abortion rights

Austin Ruse and Piero A. Tozzi | 05 August 2009 |
tags: abortion, Disabilities Convention, United Nations
Abortion has not been smuggled into international law by hiding under the banner of "sexual and reproductive health". 

Dear Sir…

William West | 05 August 2009 |
tags: letters to the editor, media, public opinion
Who reads letters to the editor, anyway? You’d be surprised. So here are some tips.

Unlikely heroine

Sheila Coronel | 04 August 2009 |
tags: Cory Aquino, heroes, Philippines
Cory Aquino inspired others around the world to struggle against tyranny when she became the first woman to lead the Philippines. 

Freedom, solidarity, subsidiarity

Martin Fitzgerald | 03 August 2009 |
tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic social teaching
Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical continues 120 years of Catholic social doctrine based on the dignity of the human person and his participation in society.

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