Our friend and occasional blogger Richard Stith recently explained The right reason for not funding Planned Parenthood . His explanation appears on the weblog of that admirable and useful organization University Faculty for Life .
You’ve missed their 2011 conference , held a couple of weeks ago. I had to miss it as well, but having been to three of them, can say that at them a good time is had by all, and much is learned by all.
While I’m pointing you to links, you might check out Richard Stith’s articles on the Social Science Research Network . They include “If Dorothy Had Not Had Toto to Pull Back the Wizard’s Curtain: The Fabrication of Human Rights as a World Religion” and “Excluding Religion Excludes More than Religion.”
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