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		<title>Abortion controversies: New developments prompt new debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion rights and health care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jack Kevorkian dies, and the end-of-life debate is revived</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a former pathologist who helped dozens of terminally ill people die with a suicide machine, has renewed a national debate on end-of-life issues that never went away completely, even after Kevorkian was sentenced to prison in 1999.]]></description>
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		<title>Bioethics: A guide to experts and resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are confronting challenges in bioethics every day and in every venue, from hospital rooms and research labs to Congress and the Supreme Court. Developments in genetics, debates over the beginning of life and the fate of embryos, and technologies that extend and even create life are raising complex questions in medical decisions and treatment.]]></description>
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		<title>On World AIDS Day, many welcome pope&#8217;s recent comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day raises awareness about the global spread of HIV infection and AIDS, with statesmen, celebrities and religious leaders announcing new initiatives and releasing statements of support for AIDS patients, doctors and researchers.]]></description>
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		<title>The fate of frozen embryos sparks intense debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popularity of in-vitro fertilization and other procedures that require the creation of multiple embryos has resulted in an excess of frozen embryos, as many as 500,000. What to do with them, and whether couples can "adopt" them to gestate them to birth, is an ethical conundrum and a matter of intense debate.

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		<title>Beyond &#8216;Octomom&#8217;: Emerging issues in assisted reproduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ethics of fertility treatments are struggling to keep up with rapid-fire advances in biotechnology. The case of Nadya Suleman, the &#8220;Octomom&#8221; who gave birth to octuplets in January 2009 through reproductive technology, is just an extreme example of the ethical dilemmas that parents, medical professionals and religious leaders are facing. In addition to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to beginning-of-life issues</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_080218.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion & birth control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earliest stages of the development of human beings, from conception through the period shortly after birth, are fraught with life-and-death issues. Whether concerned about the fate or welfare of a particular embryo, fetus or baby, or hoping to benefit from a reproductive technology or stem cell research, countless individuals and families in every part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious issues complicate adoption</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion and adoption are both, at core, about identity. And increasingly, religious issues are complicating adoption. That&#8217;s because of the increase in international and interfaith adoptions, in adoptions between races, and in adoptions by singles and gay couples. At the same time, a significant proportion of adoption agencies are faith-based, which has led to conflicts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender people seek openness, acceptance, civil rights</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_070709.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that between one-quarter of 1 percent and 1 percent of the U.S. population is transgender &#8211; their gender identity or expression differs from the biological features they were born with. That&#8217;s 750,000 to 3 million people in the United States. Lately, though, more of them are going public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to end-of-life issues</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_070625.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each day countless Americans and their families face the decisions and dilemmas that arise as people with serious diseases and injuries move toward death in a nation with: a costly, fragmented and highly technological medical system; an extremely diverse religious and spiritual character; and a very litigious legal culture. Disputes occurring at the end of [...]]]></description>
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