THE SUPREME COURT CAN FINALLY OVERTURN ROE v. WADE. IT SHOULD DO IT.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy will likely be a watershed in the nearly 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade. The court should ignore the inevitable whirlwind of elite opinion and do its constitutional duty: uphold the law and overturn Roe.
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In testimony that remains compelling, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan explained to the Senate in 2005 why “all Americans, whatever their views on abortion, should recognize that the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional power grab on this issue must end and that the political issue of whether and how to regulate abortions should be returned where it belongs—to the people and to the political processes in the states.”
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A TIME FOR COURAGE ON THE SUPREME COURT
By EPPC Fellow Carter Snead
Newsweek
The justices should emulate the courage of their predecessors in Brown v. Board of Education, restore the Court to its proper role as faithful interpreter of the Constitution and begin to repair the vast damage caused by Roe and Casey. Read More
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EPPC this week organized a coalition of more than twenty organizations—including leading think tanks, religious institutions, and public interest medical, legal, and advocacy groups—in submitting comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services objecting to HHS’s proposed rule that would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars to abortion providers by undoing a Trump-era regulation that ensured separation between Title X funded programs and abortion activities.
Click here to read the comment submitted by EPPC in objection to the rule, authored by EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison. Click here to learn more and to view video of EPPC’s press conference on the effort, which includes a presentation by EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino.
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EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito has been active in the effort to oppose the repeal of Illinois’ Parental Notification of Abortion Act. Click here and here to watch recent interviews in which she discusses this effort.
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A MOST UNFORTUNATE ROMAN INTERVENTION
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
The strategy that Cardinal Luis Ladaria urges in his letter to U.S. Bishops replicates key elements in the McCarrick approach to pro-abortion American politicians. The sluggish, tepid approach to a crisis is badly misconceived. Read More
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EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel appeared on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” to discuss the controversy over same-sex blessings in the Catholic Church in Germany, and the Vatican's new letter to the U.S. bishops regarding the treatment of Holy Communion and pro-abortion Catholic politicians. He appeared alongside Cardinal Gerhard Muller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. |
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In this interview with the Arlington Catholic Herald, EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson discusses both the Equality Act and transgender issues more broadly.
She also testified recently before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Equality Act, and earlier this year launched the Person and Identity Project, under the auspices of EPPC’s Catholic Women’s Forum, to provide formation, resources, and pastoral guidance on issues of faith, “gender,” and sexual identity.
And see also this recent four-part series of the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s “Bioethics on Air” podcast, in which Mary Hasson discusses gender ideology, the Equality Act, and the new Person and Identity Project.
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CALLED TO COURAGE
By EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson
Public Discourse
God calls each of us by name to a specific path of holiness and service to others. Important as professional success may be, the only success of ultimate importance is holiness. Read More
(Dr. Anderson recently guest-hosted a three-part series discussing the Equality Act on the Religion Unplugged podcast, including conversations with Carlo Lancellotti, Margaret McCarthy, and EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson. Click here to listen to these episodes.)
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BIDEN’S HHS CHOOSES IDEOLOGY OVER SCIENCE ON TRANSGENDER ISSUES
By EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino
Newsweek
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine seem to want to intimidate scientists, health care providers and insurers into bowing to gender identity politics without having to explain their actions to the public. Read More
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In this video by the Common Good Project at Oxford Law, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi, Director of the Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute, discusses “Vindicating Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rights: The Priority of Duty, Virtue, and the Common Good.”
Ms. Bachiochi’s newest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, is forthcoming from Notre Dame University Press in 2021.
And this summer, from August 2-6, she will lead a summer seminar at the Abigail Adams Institute for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and young professionals, titled “Man and Woman, Body and Soul in the Western Tradition.”
Click here to learn more or to register.
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A SPIRITUAL CLASH
By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Law and Liberty
If there is a clash of civilizations, it is not between the Judeo-Christian West and Islam, as Huntington and others have often seen it. Read More
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CAN FREEDOM SURVIVE THE NARRATIVES?
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
The Age of Information is the era of hysterical story lines. Twenty-first-century technology supercharges feelings, not thoughts, and registers them instantaneously on hundreds of millions of screens and minds. Such narratives serve neither history nor justice. Read More
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‘WOKE’ CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFER POISON IN PLACE OF THE GOSPEL
By EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering
National Catholic Register
Far from supplementing Church teaching, critical race theory assaults it in three fundamental ways. Read More
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NEW TOOL FOR STATES TO BLOCK ACTION CIVICS AND CRT
By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
The South Dakota letter of intent warning state bureaucrats to avoid federal grants in history and civics is a model for other states seeking to push back against leftist action civics and Critical Race Theory in the classroom. Read More
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THE LEFT-WING DIVIDE ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE IS GOING TO BE A PROBLEM FOR JOE BIDEN
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas shows how difficult, if not impossible, it will be to settle the dispute. It also puts a spotlight on how difficult it will be for President Biden to navigate the issue within his own party. Read More
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DEAR GOP: MOVE ON FROM TRUMP WITHOUT REPUDIATING HIS VOTERS
By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
Yes, the GOP needs a new leader. Yet the way to move on from Trump is to move on from Trump, instead of keeping the political world revolving around him. Read More
(See also his piece on how a new attempt to evaluate Jane Austen “according to the American upper class’s current racial obsessions mostly reveals the blind spots those obsessions encourage.”)
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ARE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS KEEPING PEOPLE FROM WORKING? WE WILL SOON HAVE AN ANSWER
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Republicans and businesses have been complaining that workers are not taking available jobs because they can make more on unemployment. As Republican-led states repeal the federal supplemental unemployment benefits program, we will soon know whether this complaint has merit. Read More
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center is pleased to announce that Jennifer Bryson, Ph.D., has joined EPPC as a Fellow in EPPC’s Catholic Women’s Forum. Educated at Stanford and Yale, Dr. Bryson has previously directed research projects at the Witherspoon Institute and the Religious Freedom Institute. At EPPC she will focus on translating the works of the Catholic writer Ida Friederike Görres from German to English. Click here to learn more about Dr. Bryson and her work at EPPC, and click here to listen to a recent podcast appearance in which she discusses Görres’s life and work.
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