Robert P. George is a prominent legal scholar and professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, known for his work on natural law theory, religious liberty, and bioethics. He contributed to The Weekly Standard on issues at the intersection of law, faith, and public policy, including religious freedom and the moral status of the unborn.
TO FULLY APPRECIATE the wrong headedness of a federal district court's recent decision expelling a faith-based program from an Iowa prison, it is necessary first to take a backward glance at the history of religious involvement in corrections in the United States.
THE JOURNAL Science late last month published the results of research conducted at Harvard proving that embryonic stem cells can be produced by a method that does not involve creating or destroying a living human embryo. Additional progress will be required to perfect this technique of stem cell…