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PRO-LIFERS CHEER NEW TEXAS LAW, WHILE ABORTION ADVOCATES SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS

By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito
Our Sunday Visitor

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

By EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino
National Review Online

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

THE STRANGE PSEUDOSCIENCE OF THE ABORTION-RIGHTS MOVEMENT

By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

The enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act has exposed the pseudoscience undergirding the worldview of abortion-rights supporters. Read More

DOES JUSTICE OR PROFIT DRIVE ABORTION?

By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

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
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YES, PRO-LIFERS SHOULD CHEER FOR TEXAS’S WINNING NEW UNBORN PROTECTION LAW

By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist

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
Be sure to check out EPPC’s “Dobbs Central” 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.

20th Annual William E. Simon Lecture

The Pope We All Need: The Papacy and the Crisis of the West

Join EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel on Monday, November 1 in D.C. for this special event.

Learn more and register here.

JUDGING THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS

By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things

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
 
(See also Dr. Trueman’s review 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.”)

THE “WOMEN’S RIGHTS” MOVEMENT GOES WOKE

By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

Abortion-rights advocates have relinquished the word “woman” out of deference to gender ideologues. Read More

(See also her piece on two new lawsuits challenging the Biden administration’s reinterpretation of federal anti-discrimination statutes to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.”)

MANCHIN SEES CLEARLY WHAT HIS PARTY’S PROGRESSIVES DON’T OR WON’T

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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

THE MIGHTY PEN OF FATHER PAUL MANKOWSKI, S.J.

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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

SPEAKING OF THE SYNOD

By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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

THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE MIGHT NOT BE A SLAM DUNK FOR DEMOCRAT TERRY MCAULIFFE

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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
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.
 
Click here to access a transcript and an audio version of the conversation, or click above for the video.
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