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March 7, 2023

Resist the Post-liberal Temptation
Patrick T. Brown
The New York Times

There has recently been a lot of chatter in Washington about family policy, and surprisingly to many people, a lot of it has happened among Republicans. Senators like Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio have released proposals that offer financial benefits to many American households for children, while other conservatives have talked about becoming a “parents’ party.” The overturning of Roe v. Wade has accelerated this trend.

EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison, Eric Kniffin, Mary Rice Hasson, and Natalie Dodson have submitted a public comment opposing a proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights that would jeopardize protections for conscience and religious freedom rights in health care.

And Rachel writes in the Federalist about the serious threat to workplace religious accommodation rights before the Supreme Court in Groff v. DeJoy.

For National Review, Stanley Kurtz writes about Governor Ron DeSantis' ambitious plans to reform higher education.

Rachel Morrison, director of EPPC’s HHS Accountability Project, was interviewed for Bloomberg on the Biden Administration’s push to scrap moral exemptions to contraceptive coverage.

On March 2, Eric N. Kniffin of the HHS Accountability Project spoke to the Washington Examiner about bills currently under consideration in Washington and Vermont that would eliminate the clergy-penitent privilege, which otherwise exempts religious ministers from reporting anything that is heard in confession.

Eric submitted public comments in Vermont and Washington on these bills.

This episode of the Faith Angle podcast features Shaun Casey, former director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs, and Rachel Donadio, a writer for The Atlantic, discussing Shaun's new book, Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom.

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