What is the basis for ethics? Moral relativism, R.I.P. / With religion on the decline, secular values are on the rise / Secular congregations promote humanist values and morals / Remember the religious roots of liberal thought / Innate morality is often overwhelmed by other biological processes / What ethics should guide decisions about life? There is wide disagreement about the morally relevant moment of life / When do we become truly conscious? The new science of consciousness should change how we think about thorny ethical dilemmas / The choice of a pregnant woman always outweighs the life of a fetus / How the Left's abortion thinking led to Gosnell / Aid in dying is a moral and just health care choice / Physician-assisted dying is justified by accepted ethical principles / Medicinal murder: charting the steady expansion of euthanasia in Europe / Should religious beliefs about ethics justify behavior? Conscience objections based on religion and morals must be allowed / Bakers of conscience / Employers should not be forced to provide for objectionable health care / Religious freedom does not allow employer denial of health care / How should ethics guide economic policies? It should be recognized that economic policies have roots in moral philosophy / Morality requires reform of the current economic system / The free market is the only moral economic system / There is a moral and economic case for raising the minimum wage / Minimum wage laws are immoral and harmful