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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Personal Autonomy</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Mourdock&#8217;s Akin Moment</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/10/mourdocks-akin-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Mourdock has a problem. Unlike his ideological clone, Mike Pence, he has a tendency to tell the truth. About 45 minutes into the Senate debate, he was asked about his pro-life beliefs, and whether those beliefs included an exception for rape and/or incest. In the course of the explanation Mourdock suggested that rape should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Public Discourse</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/08/our-public-discourse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics has issued a statement responding to accusations about &#8220;death panels&#8221; that have become a theme of attacks on healthcare reform efforts. The final paragraph of that statement reads as follows: &#8220;The Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities deplore the attempts by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Idea of Liberty</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2008/09/the-idea-of-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was initially asked to speak, I asked if there was a subject you wanted to hear about.&#160; I was told “Oh, something about liberty.” As my older grandchildren might say, that seemed pretty specific—NOT. &#160; When I thought about it, though, I decided that the subtext to the assignment was really something like: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Fucking</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/08/fear-of-fucking/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/08/fear-of-fucking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Indianapolis Star ran an article suggesting that the FDA might retreat from its insistence that access to “Plan B”—the morning-after pill—be only by prescription. The agency “might” allow women over 18 to purchase it over the counter, despite deep concerns that its ready availability might “encourage promiscuity.” &#160; And I thought the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nanny State</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2000/06/the-nanny-state/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2000/06/the-nanny-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2000 04:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers that be have recently decreed that Indiana motorists can be stopped and ticketed solely for failure to use their seatbelts. Prior to the new rule, a traffic cop who had stopped you for another violation -speeding, or a missing taillight &#8212; could issue a secondary citation if he also found you without proper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War on Women</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1999/05/war-on-women/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1999/05/war-on-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young woman, I faced gender barriers my granddaughter will never know: job and credit discrimination, exclusion from educational opportunities, and pervasive social attitudes about &#34;proper&#34; roles for women. Today the legal barriers are largely gone, and social expectations have changed dramatically. Women work&#8230; Today the legal barriers are largely gone, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/an-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/an-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we stand one more discussion of Roe v. Wade on this twenty-fifth anniversary of that incredibly divisive opinion? Can we stand one more discussion of Roe v. Wade on this twenty-fifth anniversary of that incredibly divisive opinion? The ongoing and emotional public debate that Roe generated is generally seen as a conflict between adamant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roe v Wade</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/roe-v-wade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been twenty-five years since the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Roe v. Wade &#8211; an opinion that I believe was misunderstood then, and I know is misunderstood now. It has been twenty-five years since the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Roe v. Wade &#8211; an opinion that I believe was misunderstood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morality &amp; Campaign Rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/morality-campaign-rhetoric/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/morality-campaign-rhetoric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is campaign season and once again, the politics of abortion are taking center stage. To those who see no ambiguities, who condemn every abortion no matter what the circumstances, the issue is simple: right&#8230; &#160; It is campaign season and once again, the politics of abortion are taking center stage. To those who see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining &#8220;Big&#8221; Government</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/defining-big-government/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1998/05/defining-big-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is fashionable these days for candidates of every party and persuasion to laud smaller government, but smaller is not necessarily less bossy. The issue is less the size and cost of government &#8212; important as that is &#8212; but how intrusive it shall be&#160; It is fashionable these days for candidates of every party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Right to Die</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1997/05/a-right-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1997/05/a-right-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Americans have a habit of asking the wrong questions. Right now, the wrong question is whether the Constitution gives us a &#34;right to die&#34; and if so,, whether we are entitled to have our doctors&#8217; assistance. &#160; We Americans have a habit of asking the wrong questions. Right now, the wrong question is whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ends and Means</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1997/02/ends-and-means/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1997/02/ends-and-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother used to tell me that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. It was her way of expressing the principle&#8211;much honored in the breach, I have since noticed&#8211;that the ends do not justify the means. My mother used to tell me that there is a right way and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autonomy</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1996/05/autonomy/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1996/05/autonomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Star has asked if there is a constitutional right to die. But framing the issue in that way is misleading. There is no enumerated right to die. just as there Is no right to hold particular religious beliefs or to marry outside one&#8217;s race or to join a political action group. &#160; The Star [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose Life is it Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1994/05/whose-life-is-it-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1994/05/whose-life-is-it-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the legislature has struggled with a bill containing amendments to Indiana&#8217;s &#34;Living Will&#34; law. This year, the House of Representatives (which killed the bill in prior sessions) has passed it by a comfortable margin. As I write this, those opposed to this legislation&#8230; Once again, the legislature has struggled with a bill containing [...]]]></description>
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