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** PRO-LIFERS CHEER NEW TEXAS LAW, WHILE ABORTION ADVOCATES SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS
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By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito
Our Sunday Visitor
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Given abortion’s long association with eugenics, it wasn’t necessarily surprising that some opposing the new Texas law voiced appalling statements about people living with a variety of disabilities.
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** TEXAS’S ABSOLUTELY GENIUS VICTORY FOR LIFE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino
National Review Online
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The genius of the Texas Heartbeat Act was applying existing legal concepts and frameworks to neutralize the abortion industry’s most potent weapon, the pre-enforcement challenge. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE STRANGE PSEUDOSCIENCE OF THE ABORTION-RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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The enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act has exposed the pseudoscience undergirding the worldview of abortion-rights supporters. Read More ([link removed])
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** DOES JUSTICE OR PROFIT DRIVE ABORTION?
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
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Whether abortion continues or abates under the Texas Heartbeat Act is a valuable opportunity to unearth what is really at the center of abortion and why it receives the degree of protection it does in our country. Read More ([link removed])
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** YES, PRO-LIFERS SHOULD CHEER FOR TEXAS’S WINNING NEW UNBORN PROTECTION LAW
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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Texas’s law will still be challenged in court, but abortion facilities in Texas may be closed or restricted during the legal battle. Read More ([link removed])
Be sure to check out EPPC’s “Dobbs Central ([link removed]) ” page, our repository of the best resources on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which we will update regularly while the case is pending before the Supreme Court.
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** 20th Annual William E. Simon Lecture
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** The Pope We All Need: The Papacy and the Crisis of the West
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Join EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel on Monday, November 1 in D.C. for this special event.
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** JUDGING THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS
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By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things
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There are some very hard questions to ask about our forefathers. But they cannot be asked in isolation from consideration of our own complicity in the exploitation and evils of today’s globalized economy. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Dr. Trueman’s review ([link removed]) of a book by Hartmut Rosa, “a critical theorist who has elaborated a number of concepts of exceptional usefulness in thinking about the contemporary state—perhaps I should say our contemporary experience—of Western culture.”)
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** THE “WOMEN’S RIGHTS” MOVEMENT GOES WOKE
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Abortion-rights advocates have relinquished the word “woman” out of deference to gender ideologues. Read More ([link removed])
(See also her piece ([link removed]) on two new lawsuits challenging the Biden administration’s reinterpretation of federal anti-discrimination statutes to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.”)
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** MANCHIN SEES CLEARLY WHAT HIS PARTY’S PROGRESSIVES DON’T OR WON’T
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Sen. Joe Manchin’s declaration that he wants his fellow Democrats to take a “strategic pause” in crafting the party’s proposed $3.5 trillion domestic spending package is an early warning sign for the political troubles Democrats are courting if they ignore his plea and move full speed ahead. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE MIGHTY PEN OF FATHER PAUL MANKOWSKI, S.J.
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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A new anthology highlights the work of the late Father Paul Mankowski, one of the U.S. Church’s brightest spirits and noblest sons. Read More ([link removed])
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** SPEAKING OF THE SYNOD
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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If the Church would keep the sheep in the fold, and call home those who have strayed, it would do well to speak in a recognizable voice. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE MIGHT NOT BE A SLAM DUNK FOR DEMOCRAT TERRY MCAULIFFE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Virginia has become a Democratic-leaning state over the past decade, which gives former governor Terry McAuliffe a leg up in his effort to get his old job back. The polls, however, suggest that it might not be a slam dunk. Read More ([link removed])
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EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker joined the Thinking in Public podcast with Dr. Albert Mohler to discuss the theological and ethical foundations of religious freedom and Dr. Walker’s most recent book Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age.
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