Roberto Rivera

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  Aug 21, 2020

  The intensifying persecution of Christians in India

  Given the current political climate, it seems likely that the situation for Indian Christians will continue to deteriorate.

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  Aug 15, 2020

  Mexico rejects abortion imperialism

  Recently, Mexico’s Supreme Court refused a sweeping Roe v. Wade kind of ruling on abortion. Progressives expect that as nations develop, they will expand so-called abortion rights.

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  Aug 12, 2020

  Gender-transition surgery does not improve mental health

  The best studies tend to show the worst results when it comes to transition surgery. These studies, however, never seem to generate media coverage.

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  Aug 6, 2020

  Assisted suicide for the healthy: How slippery is this slope?

  Once it is decided that certain lives are not worth living, the list of people eligible for physician-assisted suicide inevitably grows.

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  Aug 5, 2020

  Genocide in China

  Even some not concerned with China’s terrible treatment of religious minorities or its crackdown on Hong Kong, have concluded that Beijing must be knocked down a peg or ten.

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  Aug 1, 2020

  If the future belongs to the fertile, we might not have one

  In fact, 23 countries could see their populations cut in half by 2100.

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  Jul 27, 2020

  Making sense of the 2020 Supreme Court term: religious freedom and LGBT rights

  The Court did protect the religious freedom rights of definitively religious institutions. However, the Court did not protect the religious freedom of religious individuals.

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  Jul 26, 2020

  Dying well in an age of denial

  Western attitudes towards death have changed dramatically, especially in attempts to “tame death” or somehow hold it back.

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  Jul 25, 2020

  Hagia Sophia and the Armenian genocide

  Turkey and its ethnically related neighbor, Azerbaijan, are the only nations in the world that deny that the Armenian Genocide happened.

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  Jul 20, 2020

  COVID-19 is an opportunity to redefine the human species?

  What is standing in the way of what they call “our godlike technologies”? “Our ability to manipulate RNA and DNA, bacteria, viruses, algae, and fungi gives us the power to engineer life.”