The sense of entitlement of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its supporters would choke a cow. California is about to run out of cash!—and its supporters worry that it might lose the ability to borrow even more money to bury my state under an even . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been a spate of stories about Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupting pro-life events (on one occasion , they reportedly showered a group of female Catholic students with condoms). All this has led Ben Johnson to ask, “Why does Occupy Wall Street support Big Abortion?”: The . . . . Continue Reading »
Komen Drops Planned Parenthood Support Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Ted Olsen, Christianity Today Steven Pinker’s Wrongness on Dignity Christopher Kaczor, Public Discourse Capitalism and the Hebrew Bible Aryeh Spero, Wall Street Journal Should the Church Have to Dispense Birth Control? . . . . Continue Reading »
Controversy continues: Religious Liberty and Civil Society. Yuval Levin plausibly explains the origin of the current confusion over the definition of religious freedom in English-speaking democracies:The English common law tradition of religious toleration, which we inherited, has always had a . . . . Continue Reading »
We seem to be in a season of judicial sanity. As Jeremy Tedesco, the lawyer who argued the case reports, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision that vindicated the claims of Julea Ward. Ward was a counseling grad student at Eastern Michigan University, and when she . . . . Continue Reading »
Many in the pro life community are celebrating the decision by the breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen For the Cure, to break financial relations with Planned Parenthood. From the NYT story:In a decision that is inflaming passions on both sides of the abortion debate, the world’s . . . . Continue Reading »