I’m Pro-Life. I Worry That the Abortion-Pill Ruling Could Backfire.
Patrick T. Brown The Atlantic
Pro-life activists across the country are celebrating the decision by a federal district-court judge in Texas to force mifepristone, a drug used in self-induced abortions, off the market. This response makes sense: If, as pro-lifers like myself believe, the embryo developing in a mother’s womb is a human life, it is therefore worthy of both legal protection and social support. Steps that make it harder for women to have an abortion are welcome.
The drug’s ultimate legal status is uncertain. The Texas ruling would go into effect after a seven-day window, allowing the federal government to appeal or seek an emergency stay from a higher court (minutes after the Texas ruling, a federal judge in Washington State issued a ruling prohibiting the FDA from pulling the drug from the market, increasing the odds that the matter makes it way to the Supreme Court).
New online: read George Weigel's Simon Lecture, "What Ukraine Means," in the new issue of First Things magazine: "What Ukraine means for world politics is that the seemingly stable post–Cold War settlement in Europe was in fact a truce."
Last week, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison, Mary Rice Hasson, and Eric Kniffin filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit, American College of Pediatricians v. Becerra, challenging a “gender identity mandate” by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Also last week, Rachel and Eric each filed briefs in a Florida state district court case, Dekker v. Weida, involving a legal challenge to Florida’s rule prohibiting state Medicaid dollars from funding “gender transition interventions,” including harmful and irreversible cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children.
In this episode of Searching for Medicine's Soul, Aaron was joined by fellow EPPC scholar Dr. Aaron Kheriaty. Drs. Rothstein and Kheriaty discussed the biomedical security state, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior Policy Analyst Clare Morell debated Elizabeth Nolan Brown on the resolution, “The U.S. Should Ban TikTok” at this event hosted by the Buckley Institute and Yale University.
Monday, April 24, 2023 | 6–8 PM Catholic Information Center
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Alexandra DeSanctis will speak on a panel at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. about Mary Harrington's new book, Feminism Against Progress.
Erika Bachiochi will talk to Harrington at the Heritage Foundation on April 25th. They will discuss: What does it mean to be a woman today, as the meaning of sex and market preferences rapidly shift with each new technological development?
