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The Attack on Legal Protection for the Unborn Moves to State Courts <[link removed]> - By overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution allows legislatures to protect the unborn. Abortion advocates, therefore, will attack pro-life laws in state courts under state constitutions. Six state constitutions reject any right to abortion; 14 of them, explicitly or by interpretation, protect abortion; and 14 others have an equal rights amendment that could do so. Pro-life Americans, however, have new opportunities to protect the unborn: Voters in each state elect the legislators and governor responsible for that state’s abortion laws; have a direct role in changing the state constitution; elect the attorney general who must defend those laws; and, in many states, determine who sits on the supreme court. Heritage Expert: Thomas Jipping <[link removed]>
Applying Lessons of the Naval War
in Ukraine for a Potential War with China <[link removed]> – The war in Ukraine is approaching a year in length with little indication of it ending before spring 2023. While the naval war in the Black Sea has ebbed and flowed, it has always been relegated to the background in favor of the land war. This tendency to neglect the naval war must be resisted, as there are important insights to be had that are relevant to China’s continued ambitions. The Chinese military is certainly studying events there for lessons they can learn for a potential war in Taiwan. Heritage Expert: Brent Sadler <[link removed]>
Conservatives Build Governing Machine Ready for 2025 <[link removed]> - “The key
recognition is that personnel is policy — that axiom holds true,” Dans explained. “We hope, at the end of the day, that we have qualified, aligned personnel who are trained up to know their battle plan and can start work from day one.” Saying they are looking for “new blood in Washington,” the project is looking outside of D.C. to find the right people to staff the next administration. “We’re reaching outside of the swamp and appealing to new people to come and serve in Washington, and then hopefully go back home to their farm,” Dans said, emphasizing that conservatives need to start viewing this sort of work as a patriotic public service. “This is a call for people to come forward as public servants and be able to commit themselves to doing this.” Heritage Expert: Paul Dans <[link removed]>
Plague of taxes sparks New York exodus <[link removed]> - How the mighty have fallen. The latest Census Bureau data show the Empire State’s population drain continues, as people flee New York in droves. From July 2021 to July 2022, 300,000 more people moved out of the state than moved in. New York had the largest population loss — in both percentage and absolute terms — experienced by any state during that period. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
Washington Goes to CES –
Crypto is 2023’s Biggest Wild Card <[link removed]> – Of all the topics we cover here, one of the biggest 2023 wild cards is crypto — a landscape that was exploding with possibility a year ago, and now seems to be coming up with dramatic new ways to collapse every month. Heritage Expert: Jake Denton <[link removed]>
How Welfare
Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies <[link removed]> - Many welfare programs give greater benefits to unmarried individuals than to a married couple of otherwise identical income. The resulting marriage penalty discourages marriage and rewards single parenthood. Combined marriage penalties across federal and state welfare programs can reach tens of thousands of dollars per year for a given family. One component of the marriage penalties comes from state-level free or subsidized preschool programs. In addition to a failed track record in providing high-quality preschool education, the majority of government-funded preschool programs also have severe marriage penalties. Marriage is highly beneficial to adults, children, and society as a whole. Policymakers should consider the implications of their programs on marriage and design policies that do not discourage marriage, and, in fact, actively promote marriage and support married couples with children. Heritage Expert: Jamie Hall <[link removed]>
Pro-Family Conservatives Must First Be
Pro-Men <[link removed]> - Those conservatives who want to shape the nascent pro-family movement emerging on the right must be willing to embrace a controversial — and countercultural — reality: Healthy families require strong, stable, and secure men. Heritage Expert: Delano Squires <[link removed]>
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Policies That Anti-Abortion Leaders Expect a Pro-Life House Majority to Prioritize <[link removed]> - “We write to urge you to exercise Congress’s constitutional authority to legislate abortion policy at the federal level and pursue a robust pro-life agenda,” reads the letter to House and Senate
Republicans authored by organizations ranging from March for Life and Live Action <[link removed]> to The
Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.) Heritage Experts: Roger Severino <[link removed]>, Melanie Israel <[link removed]>, Emma Waters <[link removed]>, and Virginia Allen <[link removed]>
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