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** WHAT PROPONENTS OF BODILY AUTONOMY MISS
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By EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering
National Review Online
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The progressive fear that we might end up legislating morality ignores the reality that we have long been legislating a radical moral framework of autonomy at any cost. We might instead begin with a common principle that the gratification of our desires must end where the commodification of human beings begins.
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Last week, EPPC and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions partnered to host an event featuring a discussion of Robert P. George and 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, Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University, and EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson delivered remarks based on their 2019 essay ([link removed]) , and sat for a conversation with EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis and James Madison Program Communications Coordinator Antonin Scalia. View video of the event above.
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** HOUSE DEMOCRATS PASS EXTREME ABORTION BILL
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Democrats have been threatening for years now to “codify Roe v. Wade,” by which they appear to have meant enacting the Women’s Health Protection Act, one of the most pro-abortion pieces of legislation Congress has ever considered. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE DEMOCRATS’ ABORTION BILL IS RADICAL. GOOD THING IT’S DEAD ON ARRIVAL IN THE SENATE.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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House Democrats have passed an abortion rights bill, the Women’s Health Protection Act, that would effectively do away with all state-level restrictions on abortions. This goes far beyond what most of the world permits and what most Americans want. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE LONG-AWAITED END TO ROE v. WADE WILL BE JUST THE BEGINNING
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist

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Just as we must continue the political and legal fight to protect innocent human life after Roe is gone, pro-lifers must continue to show that there is a better option than abortion’s culture of death. Read More ([link removed])

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Should feminists be pro-life? Should conservatives support more welfare for families? Who is Mary Wollstonecraft? What did RBG get right and wrong? In a conversation on the “Dialogues” podcast with host Richard Reeves, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi discusses these topics and more, including her new book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision ([link removed]) .

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** NOT THAT LONG AGO, ‘EVIL’ REALLY MEANT SOMETHING
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal

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Progressives now see no difference between history’s monsters and people they don’t like on TV. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE CASAROLI MYTH
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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The ongoing Roman celebration of the Ostpolitik of the 1960s and 1970s as a triumph for Vatican diplomacy and a model for the future is sheer mythmaking—and damaging mythmaking at that. Read More ([link removed])

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** ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things

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Today’s sharp decline in sexual activity among the young has everything to do with the isolating cocoon of pornography and the collapse of any higher meaning in sexual relationships. Sex without love—real love, the kind that comes with obligations and unexpected burdens, but also unexpected joys—kills the taste for both. Read More ([link removed])

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** SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES WERE RIGHT ABOUT SEX, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST ADMITS
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist

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After decades of tearing down manners and norms, self-proclaimed social progressives are now frantically trying to reconstitute some sense of public decency. Read More ([link removed])

EPPC FILES CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT OVER UNLAWFUL RACIAL SET-ASIDES IN COVID-19 VACCINE DISTRIBUTION ([link removed])

This week, EPPC and the law firm of Boyden Gray & Associates filed a complaint ([link removed]) with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of a New Hampshire resident whom the state prohibited from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine solely because of his race.

Earlier this year, New Hampshire established the use of racial and ethnic criteria to determine eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations. Under the cover of “equity,” the state’s racial set-asides excluded vulnerable people from access to the COVID-19 vaccine because of their race, national origin, and skin color. These actions are destructive to public health and patently illegal under our bedrock civil rights laws.

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Click here to read EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison’s post for National Review Online ([link removed]) explaining that “race discrimination, even for the purpose of ‘equity,’ is still race discrimination — and illegal.”
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** ON BOOSTERS, IT’S THE WHITE HOUSE vs FDA vs CDC vs FAUCI vs ‘THE SCIENCE’
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By EPPC Fellow David Gortler
Newsweek

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Medicine and health never used to consider politics a relevant data point, but the FDA's recent silence and back-bending shows this is no longer so. And the FDA is not alone. Read More ([link removed])

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** ON AVOIDING BAD FAITH AND AD HOMINEM ARGUMENTS
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By EPPC Fellow Aaron Kheriaty
Substack

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Civility and respect on social media can advance the pursuit of truth more than snark or sarcasm, but this requires patience, nuance, and a willingness to engage directly with our interlocutors. It’s more time consuming and difficult, but it is worthwhile. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHAT’S TO BLAME FOR THE MURDER SPIKE? CERTAINLY ANTI-POLICE FERVOR DIDN’T HELP.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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There are likely many factors that contributed to the sharp increase in murders across the country, but there’s one thing that clearly did not help: the blanket anti-police mantra adopted by many urban and national leaders after the killing of George Floyd. Read More ([link removed])

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** VOODOO AND ITS ENCHANTMENTS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing

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When preached by today’s apostles of urgent change, and then chanted endlessly in everything from fashion blogs to mainstream news reporting to athletic shoe commercials, magic words like “equity” and “inclusion” infect our language with a kind of hypnotic voodoo. Read More ([link removed])

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Has gender ideology helped or harmed the cause of women’s rights? Title IX and other pro-women legislation opened up opportunities for women in education, politics, the creative arts and sports. Now all of that is being undone by the introduction of gender identity. In this video ([link removed]) from Edify, a new initiative from CatholicVote, EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Hasson explains the negative impact of gender identity on women and their rights.

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Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law 2 pro-abortion bills, including one that would allow minors to obtain abortions and "gender-affirming care" without parental consent. EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino joined EWTN News Nightly ([link removed]) to discuss this troubling legislation and more.

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