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** DENIAL IN TEXAS CASE SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNANIMOUS
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan
National Review Online
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Last night the Supreme Court denied abortion providers’ beyond–audacious request for emergency relief against the Texas Heartbeat Act by a 5–4 vote. The feebleness of the four dissents shows that the denial should have been 9–0.
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(See also Mr. Whelan’s quick primer ([link removed]) on the case; his explanation ([link removed]) of why the abortion providers’ request was baseless; and his post ([link removed]) on how plaintiffs tried to “game the court.”)
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** THE TEXAS HEARTBEAT BILL IS A PREVIEW OF A POST-ROE WORLD
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Abortion-rights advocates are outraged at this tiny preview of a United States where courts are no longer de facto defenders of unlimited abortion. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE SUPREME COURT HAD NO REASON TO BLOCK TEXAS’S ABORTION LAW
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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The Supreme Court’s refusal to prevent operation of Texas’s law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected has unleashed a squall of public debate. While that furor won’t calm for months or more, one thing is clear: The court’s majority was legally correct. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE TEXAS ABORTION LAW IS JUSTICE ON DISPLAY
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Kentucky Today
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The Texas Heartbeat Act reflects a fundamental truth of human existence: Life is good and worthy of legal recognition and legal protection. This truth reflects what ought to be a clear implication of our Declaration and our Constitution—that abortion is unconstitutional. Read More ([link removed])
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** ABORTION RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S EQUAL CITIZENSHIP
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
Newsweek
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The time has come instead to discard the male-normative theories of equality on which the putative right to abortion is constructed today. Instead, let’s make room, as earlier generations of women’s rights advocates did, for vulnerable and dependent children, and for the women—and men—responsible for their care. Read More ([link removed])
(This op-ed is adapted from Ms. Bachiochi’s new book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision ([link removed]) ).
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** A SUPREME COURT THAT CAPITULATES ON ROE V. WADE WILL UNLEASH A WHIRLWIND
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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Roe v. Wade is the leading example of the Supreme Court acting as an unelected super-legislature and imposing its will on the nation, and upholding Roe will only further delegitimize the court. Read More ([link removed])
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On Thursday, September 23, in D.C., EPPC and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions are partnering to host an event featuring a discussion of Robert P. George and EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson’s seminal National Affairs essay “The Baby and the Bathwater: Toward a Recovery of the American Idea ([link removed]) .”
At the event, Dr. George and Dr. Anderson will deliver remarks based on their 2019 essay ([link removed]) , and then sit for a conversation with EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis and James Madison Program Communications Coordinator Antonin Scalia.
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** VATICAN DIPLOMACY MAKING A DIFFERENCE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Vocal Vatican advocacy for such basic human rights as religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of the press could make a real difference for persecuted Catholics in Hong Kong and mainland China. Read More ([link removed])
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** MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN, 2024
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
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In the past, our private and public lives played out within the framework of a broad, biblically inspired set of beliefs and moral behaviors. Politics is now, in effect, our religion—but without the irritating, aerodynamic drag of a “God” to act as a brake on our hatreds. Read More ([link removed])
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On the latest episode of EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast, EPPC Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good is joined by Luke Bretherton of Duke Divinity School and Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution, who explore the religious nature of American politics and the political implications of American religion. Drawing from Christian and Muslim political-theological resources, they discuss the roots (on both the left and right) of today’s increasing pull toward illiberalism, the tendency of religion to take on the role of identity politics, and the mediating role of religious institutions in society.
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** WHY DON’T WE TELL WOMEN WHAT’S MAKING THEM MISERABLE?
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By EPPC Fellow Carrie Gress
National Review Online
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With so many feminist advances, women should be getting happier instead of just more medicated. Read More ([link removed])
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** RON DESANTIS PROBABLY WON’T BE HURT BY FLORIDA’S COVID SURGE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is again receiving national media scrutiny as his state’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations soar to record levels. That is as likely to help him politically as it is to hurt him. Read More ([link removed])
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** YOU ARE LIVING IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF STUPIDITY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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The convergence of many seemingly unrelated elements has produced an explosion of brainlessness. Read More ([link removed])
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** NO MATTER WHAT NAFTALI BENNETT AND JOE BIDEN SAY, THE U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP WILL LIKELY SOUR
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Aside from platitudes about the enduring U.S.-Israeli friendship, it is hard to see what Bennett and Biden can possibly agree on. Read More ([link removed])
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