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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care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]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>Abortion and politics: New battlegrounds in a decades-old conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, voters in Mississippi defeated a “personhood amendment” that would have defined a person as existing from the moment of the fertilization of an egg. If passed, Proposition 26 might have upended the debate over abortion. But the vote showed how the battle over abortion rights is increasingly taking place in the states.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and technology, good or evil: The debate goes on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus is bigger than Justin Bieber? Christians would say that’s true, of course. But when a Facebook page on Jesus outranks the teen idol, then the wider culture begins to take notice.]]></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>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_110215.php</link>
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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>Darwin Day 2011: Evolution in theory and practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 12 marks the birthday of Charles Darwin and the celebration of Darwin Day, an observance aimed at highlighting the theory of evolution set forth in Darwin's seminal 1859 work, "The Origin of Species." Even today, evolution remains a flash point in the debate between faith and science, believers and nonbelievers.]]></description>
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		<title>The abortion debate heats up: ReligionLink&#8217;s resources and experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion always sparks discussions about this hot-button issue, and the annual March for Life in Washington is one focus of attention. But the Republican takeover of the House has also raised hopes -- and concerns -- that new legislation could limit abortion rights. ]]></description>
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		<title>On World AIDS Day, many welcome pope&#8217;s recent comments</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/topic_101203.php</link>
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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>Election 2010 roundup: Politics and religion</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/topic_101103.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 midterm congressional elections promised to reshape the political landscape, and they did just that, as Republicans swept to victory in the House while cutting deeply into the Democratic majority in the Senate. But the vote also recast the terrain on moral and social issues important to believers of all political persuasions.

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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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