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^{Stephen C. Meyer and David K. DeWolf
March 20, 1995
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Fetal Position

_{Stephen C. Meyer and David K. DeWolf
March 20, 1995
Human Exceptionalism}

Since their dramatic election victory last November, Republicans have been urged to avoid getting “bogged down in divisive social issues.” Yet as the controversy over President Clinton’s nomination of Henry Foster for surgeon general has shown, Americans are more concerned about so-called social issues than media coverage and elite opinion would indicate. This is particularly true of abortion, ostensibly the Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer and Charles Thaxton
November 13, 1994
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Human Rights: Blessed by God or Begrudged by Government

_{Stephen C. Meyer and Charles Thaxton
November 13, 1994
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Even as the double-helix discovery, the quantum theory and the development of a polio vaccine have manifested some of man's most ennobling capabilities, the gulags and gas chambers have demonstrated with equal force that scientific prowess alone does not confirm the existence of civilization — if civilization is to be measured by a commitment to protecting human rights. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 27, 1993
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The Whispers of Strangers

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 27, 1993
Human Exceptionalism}

Today is my 76th birthday,” the letter began. “Unassisted and by my own free will, I have chosen to take my final passage.” Suicide. My friend Frances died in a cold, impersonal hotel room after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head suffocating the life out of her body. Frances was not a Read More ›

Pregnant Woman Having 4D Ultrasound Scan

^{Stephen C. Meyer
June 1, 1985
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Fully Formed

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 1, 1985
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

The right-to-life movement has mastered a powerful new tool of persuasion: medical technology. A recently developed science called fetology has greatly enhanced knowledge of the human unborn, and harbors an implied challenge to the legal practice of abortion. “Now for the first time, we have the technology to see the abortion from the victim’s vantage point,” says Dr. Bernard Nathanson, Read More ›