fbpx

Category: Abortion

Abortion
Post
June 29, 2021June 28, 2021Abortion, Politics

Repudiating Roe (Part II): The Pernicious Doctrine of Stare Decisis

By

The doctrine of stare decisis is a dangerous tool, malleable, and peculiarly susceptible to manipulation and abuse. It entices and deceives. If just two justices compromise their principles and betray the Constitution, Dobbs will be lost. If so, Dobbs will displace Casey as the worst Supreme Court decision of all time, and the justices rendering it will merit the most severe condemnation of history. But if the Court overrules Roe and Casey, the Dobbs case would rank among the most magnificent decisions in the Court’s history.

Post
June 22, 2021June 24, 2021Abortion, Religion, Religion and the Public Square

Why We Opposed an Anti-Abortion Resolution at the Southern Baptist Convention

By , , , , , , and

The resolution on abortion that was passed at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville was well-intended but woefully flawed. It offers no exception for the life of the mother, and it opposes incrementalism. Those two items are serious shortcomings that would lead to the loss of more innocent lives, not fewer.

Post
June 15, 2021June 15, 2021Abortion, Education

Irony That Gives a Damn

By

The question is not whether we will wrestle with the morality of art, but how artful our wrestling will be. Irony is not an essence or an end: irony is a means toward other aims. By nature, it appeals to our moral sensibilities, even if at its most mature it does so indirectly.

Post
March 11, 2021March 15, 2021Abortion, Bioethics, Coronavirus, Healthcare, Vaccines

Statement from Pro-Life Catholic Scholars on the Moral Acceptability of Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines

By

The Ethics and Public Policy Center has organized the following statement from leading pro-life Catholic scholars, including EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson, EPPC board member and Princeton professor Robert P. George, and EPPC Fellow and Notre Dame professor O. Carter Snead, along with two professors at pontifical universities in Rome and other U.S.-based scholars, to explain why it is morally acceptable for pro-life citizens to receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines currently available.

Post
February 25, 2021February 25, 2021Abortion, Politics

Child Allowances Reduce Abortion

By

One feature of Mitt Romney’s Child Allowance proposal has been critically under-billed: the extremely high likelihood that it would reduce the abortion rate. Conservatives arguing that a rise in single parenthood is an unacceptable cost of a child allowance are necessarily arguing, as a corollary, that some of those children instead being aborted is an acceptable cost of the current policy regime. But if abortion is murder, then keeping single parenthood down by murdering the infants is surely not an optimal anti-poverty policy.

Post
November 8, 2020November 9, 2020Abortion, Politics

The Lincoln Proposal: Pro-Life Presidents Must Take Ambitious and Bold Action to Protect the Constitutional Rights of Preborn Children

By , and

Americans need not accept an interminable status quo of indifference toward the rights of the child, due either to the timidity of our political elite or to the presumption of our judiciary class. The ‘Lincoln Proposal’ offers pro-life presidents the clearest way to confront Roe v. Wade’s jurisprudence of violence and doubt and to protect the constitutional rights of preborn persons.

Post
November 1, 2020November 12, 2020Abortion, Bioethics, Open Letter

Questions on Abortion: A Dinner Invitation to Nicholas Kristof

By

The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof addresses the debate over abortion from an external point of view, for he has not attempted to understand or imagine the pro-life position from the standpoint of someone who holds that view. If he’d like to try seeing it from within, Mr. Kristof is most welcome to join us for dinner and conversation at the Witherspoon Institute.

Post
October 31, 2020January 22, 2021Abortion, Feminism, Sunday Long Reads, Voices of Reason

Erika Bachiochi on the Future of Pro-Life Feminism

By and

The question that divides us is how we ought to respond to reproductive asymmetry: the reality that women carry disproportionate burdens due to our special role in human reproduction. What makes one a feminist is the view that this basic inequality at the heart of reproduction is one that deserves, in justice, an affirmative cultural response. We wish not only for maternity to be celebrated for the true privilege it most certainly is, but also for women to be encouraged and supported in other contributions they make. This requires that the burdens of childbearing ought to be shared not only within the family, but also across the wider society too.

Post
October 29, 2020October 29, 2020Abortion

Seeing beyond Roe

By

Now that Roe v. Wade is on the brink of being overturned, we need to have conversations across the partisan divide and heal our nation’s wounds.

Post
October 28, 2020December 8, 2020Abortion, Bioethics, Coronavirus, Vaccines

Clarifying Fetal Tissue Policy Contradictions

By

If the president and his administration are to be credibly accused of inconsistency with respect to their stance on using fetal cell lines from abortions, it would not be because the president personally received a dose of Regeneron’s drug, but rather because of a very different ethical failure: his administration’s channeling of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds directly into the development of COVID-19 vaccines that utilize abortion-derived cells for their production.

Post
October 5, 2020October 5, 2020Abortion, Conscience Protection, Human Dignity, Parental Rights, Politics, Religion and the Public Square

The Threat to Life and Liberty from the United Nations’ Abuse of Human Rights

By

Individuals who are victims of abuses against their fundamental human rights can and should be defended and protected using existing human rights laws and norms, regardless of their race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or any other distinguishing characteristic. UN member states and human rights advocates alike should work to promote and protect fundamental, natural human rights, not redefine or eliminate rights based on their particular policy preferences.

Post
October 2, 2020December 14, 20202020 Election, Abortion, Politics, Voting

Why Voting for Biden Isn’t Necessarily a Sin—And Why That Matters

By

While I do not intend to vote for Biden, I am adamant that a Christian may in good conscience vote for him so long as it is not because of the evils he supports. Recognizing this fact is crucial for those who care about Christian witness in a fallen world. When our moral witness becomes entirely tied to prudential political judgments, we swap our faith in a transcendent redeeming God who offers us salvation for a politician or party who promises to create heaven on earth.

Post
September 20, 2020September 21, 20202020 Election, Abortion, Bioethics, Voting

The 2020 Election: A Clear Distinction on Abortion

By

While both presidential candidates have changed their views on abortion over the past decades, their actions in recent years clarify the direction that they would likely take while in office. President Trump has maintained a consistent pro-life record in office that affects the regulations of various executive agencies and American leadership on the world stage. On the other hand, former Vice President Biden has moved to support his party’s current position of actively promoting federal funding for the abortion industry and cementing abortion as a constitutional right.

Post
August 26, 2020August 26, 2020Abortion, Bioethics, Constitutional Law, Hadley Arkes, Human Dignity, Natural Law, Politics, Supreme Court

Josh Hawley and the Advantages of Jujitsu

By

Senator Hawley should turn the tables during confirmation hearings and force Democrats to defend their abortion extremism. What’s more, he should act on precedents stemming from the days of Lincoln down to our own, precedents involving the authority of the political branches to counter at times and limit the holdings of the Supreme Court.

Post
August 11, 2020August 12, 2020Abortion

Why the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Should Not Ignore Abortion

By

Despite many excellent elements, the Commission’s first report falls short where it matters most. The right to life is the most fundamental right, the one on which all authentic human rights depend. The commission may revise the initial draft of the report following a public comment period. If the foremost experts on human rights in the United States could not agree that international human rights law affords children in the womb any protections at all, how can Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his team be expected to contradict them in American diplomacy?

Subscribe to Public Discourse!