Muddling Toward Maturity Blog: The Social Conservative Review: The Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News -- January 31, 2013

The Family Research Council does superb work in assembling these articles. For previous issues of the Social Conservative Review, click here. The items below are found here.

Educational Freedom and Reform
Homeschooling

"Common Core K-12 hits home," The Orange County Register
"HSLDA Defends Homeschooling Family in Supreme Court," Home School Legal Defense Association
"Back in the homeschool classroom: Blazing new trails," SWAC Girl

Legislation and Policy Proposals

"School Choice Under Attack in New Hampshire," Institute for Justice
"The ABCs of School Choice," The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
"Mr. Obama: Most Schools Aren't Like Your Daughters' School," Education Week
"A Big Tent for Charter Schools," EducationNext

College Debt

"Some Pluses, Many Negatives for Higher Education," Minding the Campus
"Selling Their Futures: College Grads Promise a Slice of Their Future Income for Cash Now," Time
"College students turn to 'Sugar baby lifestyle' to beat college debt," The District Chronicles
"College costs too much, delivers too little," The Orange County Register

Government Reform
Regulation

"Governments Should Choose Growth Over Regulation," American Banker
"Big Bureaucrazy Versus Freedom To Farm," National Center for Public Policy Research
"Going from rule of law to rule of rules," The Orange County Register
"Arnold Kling on Tying Government's Hands to Balance its Budget," Cafe Hayek

Waste/Fraud/Abuse

"Reporting government waste or fraud? There's an app for that," WRAL.com
"It's the Waste, Stupid!," The American Thinker

Health Care
Abstinence

"Carlsbad pregnancy center steers young women away from abortion," Carlsbad Current-Argus
"Abstinence could reduce Cervical Cancer," The Christian Post

Health care reform: Political and Legislative efforts

"Confused professors shocked schools are cutting their hours to avoid Obamacare penalties," AEIdeas.org
"The ObamaCare-Induced Shift to Part-Time Work," Hoover Institution
"Why health costs are rising," The Galen Institute
"HHS Mandate Cases: A Scorecard," Alliance Defending Freedom
"Plumbing Company Sues Gov't Over Birth Control Mandate," The Christian Post
"The insured and the unsure," The Economist

Homosexuality

"Same-Sex "Weddings" at National Cathedral Symbolize Decline, Not Advance," Family Research Council
"At Supreme Court, Gay Marriage Foes Make Their Strongest Case Yet," The Atlantic
"Rhode Island moves closer to approving same-sex marriage," NBC News
"The Attorneys in the Gay Marriage Case," The Library of Law and Liberty

Human Life and Bioethics
Abortion

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"The West's Deafening Silence on China's Forced Abortions," Patheos.com
"Abortion's Forgotten Victim: The Aborted Baby's Father," LifeNews.com
"Pro-lifers Win, Obama Loses in UN Abortion Battle," WORLD Magazine
"Forty Years Later: It's Time for a New Feminism," The Public Discourse
"Abortion and the Contraceptive Mentality," Crisis Magazine
"New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities," Friday Fax
"Roe turns 40. Here's an amazing video of what you looked like about three months into your life," The Washington Examiner
"Abortion: U.S. Taxpayers Fund It Here and Abroad," The Heritage Foundation
"Why My Support for Abortion Was Based on Love...and Lies," National Catholic Register

Bioethics and Biotechnology

"Reprogramming Cells - and Souls," The Catholic Thing
"Protecting NIH Chimps Is Anti Science!," National Review Online
"The Coming Public Conflict Over Human Cloning," First Things

Euthanasia and End of Life Issues

"Dignity, Equality and Atticus Finch," Values and Capitalism
"Let's Find a Way to Kill Alzheimer's Patients!," National Review Online

Stem Cell Research
To read about the latest advances in ethical adult stem cell research, keep up with leading-edge reports from FRC's Dr. David Prentice, click here.

"Stem cells: Tuning the death sentence," Phys.org
"Flouting the law barring embryo research," The Washington Times
"Stem cell research: Japanese scientists grow human kidney tissue out of stem cells," Global Post

Human Trafficking

"The truth about sex trafficking," The Washington Times
"Bending the Arc Towards Justice," The Polaris Project
"8th Circuit Court Decision Nabs Buyers," Shared Hope International

Marriage and Family
Adoption

"Russia's Tragic Ban on U.S. Adoptions," Family Research Council
"The Shrinking Adoption Pool," Family Research Council
"US Embassy says some Russian orphans in limbo after adoption ban leave for US," Fox News
"Interview: Russell Moore on "Adoption Is a 'Pro-life' Policy for Evangelicals," The Houston Chronicle

Family Economics

"A New Reality: Higher Taxes for All," Values and Capitalism
"16 Tons of Keynesian Economics," The American
"The Economics of Downton Abbey," The Acton Institute
"The Young and the Economically Illiterate," The Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics
"Here's why we might actually be winning the war on poverty," AEIdeas.org

Family Structure

"The End of Courtship?," New York Times
"Lessons from France on Defending Marriage," The Public Discourse
"Music, Demons, and Little Girls," The Catholic Thing
"3 Things I Wish I Knew Before We Got Married," Relevant Magazine
"A man's top 5 reasons to grow up and get married," Fox News

Media
Pornography

"Desire and Design," The Catholic Thing
"Internet Porn And Men: Has Pornography Warped Male Sexuality?," The Huffington Post

Internet

"How Facebook Can Make You Envious," Mashable

Religion and Public Policy
Religious Liberty

"What Today's 'Proclamation on Religious Freedom Day' Missed," The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
"Stanford Law Opens Nation's First Religious Liberty Legal Clinic," The FedSoc Blog
"Religious Liberty Double Standards Indicated In New Poll," The Huffington Post
"Trigg on 'Cleverly Nuanced' Religious Liberty Rulings," First Things
"The Political Valence of Religious Liberty," Commonweal Magazine

Religion in America
Check out Dr. Kenyn Cureton's feature on Watchmen Pastors called "The Lost Episodes," featuring how religion has had an impact on our Founding Fathers.