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** IN A POST-ROE WORLD, STATES CAN FIND COMMON GROUND IN SUPPORTING MOMS
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
Newsweek
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Conservative and progressive lawmakers and activists will always disagree about whether abortion should be legal. They can find common ground, however, in making abortion less seemingly necessary for moms in economic distress.
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(See also Mr. Brown’s piece ([link removed]) examining the pandemic’s effect on women’s participation in the labor market, and his piece ([link removed]) on how the Build Back Better plan would have negative consequences for faith-based child care.

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SAVE THE DATE: Please join us before the 2022 March for Life for a breakfast, panel discussion, and book signing co-hosted by Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

The panel will feature EPPC Fellows Erika Bachiochi, Carter Snead (Director of the Notre Dame de Nicola Center), and Carl R. Trueman, in conversation about their most recent books, moderated by EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito. Introductory remarks will be given by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson.

Registration is required to attend. Registration for this event will open soon.

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** I COULDN’T VOTE FOR TRUMP, BUT I’M GRATEFUL FOR HIS SUPREME COURT PICKS
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
The New York Times
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If Roe goes, the pro-life movement can begin where it left off in 1973, working to convince fellow citizens (especially in blue states like mine) that we owe dependent and vulnerable unborn children what every human being is due: hospitality, respect and care. Read More ([link removed])

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On December 15, 2021, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi will take part in an America’s Town Hall program hosted by the National Constitution Center. The event, titled “The Meaning of Equality in America,” will be livestreamed on the center’s website and on YouTube. Click here to learn more or to register ([link removed]) .
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** POLL: AMERICANS CONTINUE TO MISUNDERSTAND ROE
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Plenty of Americans both want abortion to be illegal and want to preserve the ruling that makes it impossible to prohibit abortion. This is possible only if some sizable number of Americans simply doesn’t understand what Roe and Casey meant for abortion policy. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE FIRST RULE OF LAW: PROTECT THE INNOCENT
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
WORLD Opinions
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The response to the obtuse, rogue constitutionalism set forth in Roe and cemented by its progeny in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, is not to jettison constitutionalism. It is, instead, to return to a just constitutionalism—one that interprets the Constitution according to text, structure, and original meaning. Read More ([link removed])

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** IF THE SUPREME COURT WHIFFS ON ABORTION, THEY’LL BLOW UP THE CONSERVATIVE LEGAL MOVEMENT
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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The Dobbs case challenging Roe v. Wade could bring grassroots conservatives back into the originalist fold, or it could ignite a civil war that would destroy the conservative legal movement. Read More ([link removed])

Today, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel delivered the JP2 Lecture at the St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas – the Angelicum in Rome. His lecture, titled “Karol Wojtyła’s Areopagus Meditations: Lessons for the 21st Century West,” explored the future John Paul II’s understanding of “the West” as a civilization, the West’s roots in biblical religion and Greek rationality, the future pope’s convictions about the theotropic nature of the human person, and the relevance of those themes for the current crisis of civilizational morale in the western world.
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** FROM GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN 1936 TO BEIJING 2022
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Anyone paying the slightest attention to world affairs knows what the Xi Jinping regime is doing in China. Holding the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing in February 2022 will be an obscenity. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF SYNODS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
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The Petrine ministry carries with it a duty to foster unity and clarity of belief. Pope Francis surely understands this. Whether the theme and architecture of the 2023 synod serve that ministry is still to be seen. Read More ([link removed])


** EVENT: The Problem of Atheism: Del Noce, Marx, and the Roots of Western Irreligion
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Next month, philosopher Augusto del Noce’s The Problem of Atheism ([link removed]) will appear in English for the first time. On Monday, December 13, join Prof. Carlo Lancellotti, Del Noce’s translator and an expert in Del Noce’s thought, along with EPPC Fellow Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., author of a forthcoming book on Del Noce, and EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman, author of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, for a discussion of Del Noce’s book, his work, and his enduring importance. EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier moderates the discussion.

(See also Mr. Maier’s essay for Public Discourse on The Problem of Atheism here ([link removed]) .)
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** NOT MY KIDS
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By EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering
The American Mind
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Recovering victims of woke abuse have had enough. Read More ([link removed])

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** DO I TEACH AT A WOKE SCHOOL?
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By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
The Institute for Faith and Freedom

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The way a Christian school can hold to its beliefs yet give students a good education is to hold faculty to a standard of belief but then ensure that they engage other viewpoints in the classroom, host speakers from a variety of political and philosophical traditions, and encourage students to wrestle honestly with the great ideas and the hard questions of the past and the present. Read More ([link removed])

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** YES, THE 2017 TAX CUTS HELPED WORKING-CLASS AMERICANS. BUT CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BE HONEST ABOUT HOW.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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A new analysis of Internal Revenue Service data is receiving a lot of attention among conservatives for showing that the 2017 tax cuts reduced the income tax burden of working-class taxpayers by a higher percentage than it did for higher-income earners. But conservatives should also recognize the main reason: expanded child tax credits that most supply-siders opposed. Read More ([link removed])

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** EPPC SCHOLAR FILES SECOND CIRCUIT BRIEF SUPPORTING CHALLENGE TO LACK OF RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS IN NEW YORK’S VACCINE MANDATE
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EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a second amici brief in Dr. A. v. Hochul—a case challenging the lack of religious exemptions in New York’s vaccine mandate—but this time in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More ([link removed])


** EVENT: Beyond Censorship: How Social Media Harms Children and Families ([link removed])
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Unfair and ideologically-driven censorship is not the only problem plaguing social media platforms. They are increasingly being shown to have harmful effects on our children and families, too. In this special online event ([link removed]) from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell interviews EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman; Sean Clifford, CEO of Canopy; and Dr. Jimmy Myers, Founder, Co-Owner, and CEO of The Timothy Center, to discuss the effects of social media on children’s development and mental health, the dangerous growth of pornography on these platforms, and the broader consequences of social media on our families, relationships, and communities. The event will examine how to think about human flourishing in relation to social media and possible solutions for regulating these platforms to prevent harms to the common good.

Video of this event will be published Friday, December 10.
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** Recent Media Appearances Featuring EPPC Scholars
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* VIDEO: Will Dobbs End Roe?: What Happened at Court Last Week and What Could Happen in June and Beyond ([link removed]) (co-sponsored with National Review Institute, featuring Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis)

* VIDEO: Ed Whelan Discusses Biden’s Court-Packing Threat ([link removed]) (Fox Business)

* AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Market Orthodoxy vs. Market Skepticism ([link removed]) (Capitol Record podcast)
* VIDEO/AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Dobbs Oral Arguments and a Post-Roe Future ([link removed]) (Breakpoint podcast)

* VIDEO/AUDIO: Mary FioRito on Dobbs Oral Arguments ([link removed]) (Chicago’s Morning Answer)

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