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What I Really Want For My Children Is That They Be Loved And That They Be Happy And That They Lead A Good Life.

A Better Way To Mutual Respect Is To Engage Directly With The Moral Convictions Citizens Bring To Public Life, Rather Than To Require That People Leave Their Deepest Moral Convictions Outside Politics Before They Enter.

The Majority Of American States Had Laws By The 1930s That Allowed For Forced Sterilization Of Socially Undesirable Categories Of People, So-called Feeble-minded, For Example, And With Hitler Culminating In Genocide.

It's Possible To Make Sense Of What's Morally At Stake In An Appreciation Of The Gift Of Life, Or The Gift Of A Child, Without Necessarily Presupposing That There Is A Giver. What Matters Is That The Gift - In This Case, The Child - Not Be Wholly Our Own Doing, Our Own Product.

I Have A Broad But Not An Expert Or Scholarly Background In The Jewish Tradition. I've Tried To Learn What I Can From Childhood, But I Am Not An Expert On Jewish Teachings.