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ROE V. WADE WAS A LOUSY DECISION. THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OVERTURN IT.

By EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson (with Robert P. George)
USA Today
In what will prove to be the most watched – and most important – Supreme Court case in nearly half a century, the court will have an opportunity to correct a grievous error, one that has not only lent legal, indeed constitutional, cover to the elective killing of unborn children literally by the millions, but has also deeply corrupted American constitutional jurisprudence.
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(Read the amicus brief filed by EPPC in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.)

NYT SYMPOSIUM ON NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: THE WORD ‘PERSON’ SHALL APPLY TO ALL HUMAN LIFE—BORN OR UNBORN

By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
The New York Times
We must affirm the truth of Thomas Jefferson’s words once again, this time by ending the dehumanizing injustice of abortion and securing the right to life of unborn human beings. Read More
BECERRA AND BIDEN BETRAY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS BEING FORCED TO ASSIST IN ABORTIONS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino
National Review Online
 
In a piece for National Review Online, EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino sharply criticizes a decision by the Department of Justice to drop its lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) in a case involving a nurse who alleged that she was forced, over her religious and moral objections, to participate in an abortion procedure: "The facts were stunning in their clarity, the victim was extremely credible and sympathetic, and the violator remained entirely callous and unrepentant. The UVMMC matter was the most open and shut conscience case in over a decade."

For more on this story, see this piece at NRO by EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis and this news story at FoxNews.com.)
 

ON CENSORSHIP, BIG TECH HAS IT BOTH WAYS

By EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell (with law professor Philip Hamburger)
The Wall Street Journal
Tech companies enjoy the privileges of common carriers without the responsibilities. State antidiscrimination laws are one promising remedy. Read More

(Click here to read Morell and Hamburger’s response to a critique of their Wall Street Journal piece published at National Review Online.)

HOW BIDEN’S COVID-TESTING MANDATE VIOLATES CIVIL RIGHTS

By EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino
National Review Online
President Biden announced that all federal workers who do not get vaccinated for COVID-19 will face a series of burdens and intrusions designed to raise the costs of not submitting to the shot(s). This is a threat to civil liberties that violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. Read More


WATCH: EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino joined “Fox News @ Night” with host Shannon Bream to discuss the legality of vaccine mandates for public employees.
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A FINAL CHANCE FOR SCOTUS TO DELIVER JUSTICE FOR BARRONELLE STUTZMAN

By EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson (with Robert P. George)
National Review Online
In our pluralistic society, the answer to our disagreements cannot be to strip grandmothers of their life’s savings because they refuse to, in effect, say things, or use their personal gifts to assist others in saying things, that are contrary to their beliefs. Read More

‘KICKING JIM JORDAN’ ISN’T HEALTHY—EVEN AT THE GYM

By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
A lurid fantasy of political violence at a fancy exercise class for nice people: This is the way we live now. Read More

LOOKING BACK TO THINK FORWARD

By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
In every age, it’s the converted mind and heart that God uses to make all things new, whatever the obstacles. Read More

MORAL COURAGE AND THE MANY CULTURES OF DEATH

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
The example of Colonel Ryszard Kukliński should be pondered by Catholic citizens and Catholic public officials throughout the West today, who are called to resist, with similar moral courage and effect, that form of the culture of death that masquerades as the ideology of “choice.” Read More

EPPC is pleased to announce that theologian and intellectual historian Carl Trueman has joined as a fellow in our Evangelicals in Civic Life Program. Trueman is the author of the best-selling, award-winning 2020 book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution. Trueman’s work at EPPC will focus on helping civic leaders and policy makers better understand the deep roots of our current cultural malaise.

Read more here, including quotes from EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson, former Archbishop Charles Chaput, and others celebrating the news.

ABOLISHING AMERICA: BIDEN AND BETTINA LOVE

By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
If you care about the battle over critical race theory (CRT) in the schools, you need to know about Bettina Love. Read More

‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE,’ MSGR. BURRILL AND SPIRITUAL FRUITFULNESS: LET THE LIGHT SHINE IN THE DARKNESS

By EPPC Fellow Carrie Gress
National Catholic Register
It is no accident that fruitfulness is now missing on the spiritual level. With some exceptions, it has been all but abandoned by the culture and even the faithful. Read More

TIME TO REVERSE THE CURSE OVER THE DOLLAR

By EPPC Lehrman Institute Fellow in Economics John D. Mueller
The New York Sun
Other countries backing their currencies with dollar-denominated securities led to a dilemma for America. U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared in direct proportion to the decline in our net reserves. Read More
Watch a video of our recent event at the Catholic Information Center on EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi’s book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, which offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States and proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights grounded in our responsibilities.

The event was moderated by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and included responses from Mary Eberstadt and Ashley McGuire.
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