This article was originally posted on October 24, 2003 at http://www.reason.com/sullum/102403.shtml but has since been deleted, and is reproduced here for archival purposes. What partial-birth abortions…
Eerdmans, 2000. Bio-ethics is a new and burgeoning field, affecting all of us. Issues like human cloning, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive technologies, genetically modified foods,…
In the March 29 Melbourne Age there appeared an article by Peter Singer entitled “Why we should ignore the Catholic Church on stem cells”. In…
Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000. In any cultural battle, truth, or the lack of it, will strongly determine the outcome. In the battle over abortion, truth has…
Even in our biblically illiterate culture there is one verse which non-believers know and know very well: “Judge not, or you too will be judged”…
Robert Nisbet once remarked that environmentalism has become the third great redemptive movement in human history, following Christianity and Marxism. Indeed it already has its…
The Australian Education Union has just proposed that AIDS and sex education classes become compulsory from the earliest years of primary school. It wants homosexuality…
Ignatius Press, 1991. The family has faced assorted threats throughout history. The French and Russian revolutions come to mind as two especially hostile forces to…
The Australian Medical Association has recently come out in favour of a Victorian proposal to require people to report child sexual abuse. The proposal, made…
Harvest House Press, 1990. “In our time,” wrote George Orwell, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuation…