An indulgence of adult desires

Brigitte Pellerin | 22 December 2008 | comment 12

Surrogate motherhood isn't about forming families; it is about satisfying adult desires.

Who cares about third world mothers?

Robert Walley | 16 December 2008 | comment 1

The hidden scandal of unsafe childbirth and the hope that a new professional initiative is bringing to mothers.

Lessons in progressive politics

Michael Cook | 19 November 2008 | comment 19

Something unexpected happened when Uruguayan politicians tried to liberalise their country's archaic abortion laws. 

The rights and wrongs of privacy

Janet E Smith | 31 October 2008 | comment 10

How did ‘privacy’ come to cover a multitude of sins? A philosopher explains.

The Filipino front in the culture wars

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 21 October 2008 | comment 47

The heavyweights of the global reproductive health agenda are making an all-out bid to displace the church as the conscience of the Philippines.

Respect for conscience must be a social value

Margaret Somerville | 17 October 2008 | comment 33

In mature Western democracies we have competing societal values, with abortion at the eye of the storm.

A crypto culture of life director?

Matthew Mehan | 17 October 2008 | comment 43

M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Happening was panned by critics who failed to grasp his insightful critique of the culture of death.

Forcing compliance

Michael Cook | 16 October 2008 | comment 11

The Australian state of Victoria has a world first: a law which forces doctors to refer women for abortion or to do it themselves -- even if they have a conscientious objection.

Doctors’ orders

Michael A. Fragoso | 15 October 2008 | comment 16

Attacks on conscientious objection are part of an international campaign to make abortion a basic human right.

The best get convictions; the worst get medals

Nigel Hannaford | 09 October 2008 | comment 11

A Canadian woman has spent nearly half of the last 14 years in jail as a prisoner of conscience. Why doesn't she have a medal?

Light from the north?

Josephine Quintavalle | 22 September 2008 | comment 5

Scottish conservatism may help bring down the government at Westminster and its obnoxious legislation on human life.

A question of conscience

Michael Cook | 13 September 2008 | comment 25

Why are pro-choice activists so dismissive of freedom of conscience? 

America’s most public pregnancy

Brian Lilley | 05 September 2008 | comment 17

Some culture wars start this way: a small bombshell in an out-of-the-way place and before you know it, they're lobbing grenades.

Does making babies make sense?

Richard Stith | 02 September 2008 | comment 37

Why so many people find it difficult to see humanity in a developing foetus.

You gotta have faith

Brian Lilley | 27 August 2008 | comment 38

Joe Biden's nomination as Barack Obama's running mate casts a shadow over the Democrats' campaign. 

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