WHOLE LIFE ARTICLES

Pushing a Dangerous Anti-Human Exceptionalism “Undignified Bioethics”

Wesley J. Smith, Secondhand Smoke

Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith responds to an article which argues that human beings do not have intrinsic value (dignity) simply by virtue of their humanity--that our worth is based rather on our "moral status" i.e. how intelligently we encounter each other and the world.
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AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right

Edward C. Green and Allison Herling Ruark

Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions. Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named “ten myths” that impede prevention efforts—including “Poverty and discrimination are the problem,” “Condoms are the answer,” and “Sexual behavior will not change.” Yet such myths are held as self-evident truths by many in the AIDS establishment. And they result in efforts that are at best ineffective and at worst harmful, while the AIDS epidemic continues to spread and exact a devastating toll in human lives.
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Stem Cells for Dummies

E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D., Culture of Life Foundation

Ever wondered what the difference is between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells? Here's an easily broken down accessible answer.
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Contraception and Chastity

Elizabeth Anscombe

Roman Catholic thinker Elizabeth Anscombe relfects on the theological implications of contraception and chastity. Writing as a Roman Catholic, Anscombe offers a penetrating moral analysis of marriage and sexuality that will benefit any reader who rejects the secularist reduction of marriage as merely a union that sanctions sexual activity between partners.
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The Gospel of Life

Pope John Paull II

Pope John Paul II's famous encyclical on the dignity of human life.
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The Apple Argument Against Abortion

Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft delivers a Socratic argument against abortion.
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A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty

Avery Cardinal Dulles

Avery Cardinal Dulles discusses the death penalty as a theologian, "While sociological and legal questions inevitably impinge upon any such reflection, I am here addressing the subject as a theologian. At this level the question has to be answered primarily in terms of revelation, as it comes to us through Scripture and tradition, interpreted with the guidance of the ecclesiastical magisterium. Any authentic Christian judgment must be informed by this teaching." View Article

Kill the Diagnosis, Not the Patient

Bobby Schindler, Townhall.Com

Bobby Schindler of TerrisFight.Org writes about healthcare--and the
government making its way into end-of-life decisions. "No innocent person should ever be denied the basic necessities of living. Irrespective of your station in life, your physical abilities, your cognitive abilities or your personal situation, I believe you have a right to live your life and a reasonable expectation to be treated like a human being."
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Human Personhood Begins At Conception

Dr. Peter Kreeft, Catholic Education Research Center, www.catholiceducation.org

Boston College philosophy professor Peter Kreeft presents the arguments commonly used to explain why the unborn child is not a human person and then shows clearly and simply why each of these arguments cannot possibly be true. View Article

Unhappy Fault - the Integration of Anger Into the Virtuous Life

Leon J. Podles, Touchstone Magazine

Dr. Podles, senior editor of Touchstone, distinguishes between “turning the other cheek” and being a doormat—there are times, especially when human dignity is threatened that we ought to be angered by injustice. View Article