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...George Tiller was a mass murderer," said the antiabortion extremist Randall Terry after the doctor was murdered in the lobby of his church. But Terry was an outlier. Most of the pro-life movement reacted with appropriate horror - and the talking heads who had exploited the Tiller situation, like Bill O'Reilly, were subdued for a change...
...truth, Tiller was practicing a form of medicine most Americans find abhorrent. Recent polls show a notable shift away from pro-choice sentiment - in early May, the Gallup Organization recorded a majority of Americans taking a pro-life position for the first time since it began asking the question in 1995. It's possible that abortion has become less acceptable because of the remarkable advances in sonogram technology. We now can see, in perfect detail, the exquisite humanity that exists within the womb, especially in the later stages of pregnancy. Late-term abortions - no more than a few percent...
...Unfortunately, direct empirical analysis linking the role of ethical and moral values to happiness has been very limited. More typical, and still highly interesting, has been the study of how pro-social behavior, such as altruism, or other specific components of an ethical life, influence happiness. Voluntarism, for example, is a specific pro-social behavior that provides a good measure of altruism. In fact, volunteer work is one of the most practiced and important pro-social activities across the globe. Of adults in the U.S., 50 percent participate in volunteer activities, doing the amount of labor in a year...
Sebelius is a Democrat who was twice elected governor of Kansas, a heavily Republican state. She helped draft a national bill of patients rights, and was described by HKS Dean David T. Elwood as “a pro-business democrat...
...Roeder is most definitely not part of the pro-life movement." - Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life president and CEO, U.S. News and World Report, June...