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"When Roger Scruton died in early 2020, the world lost a philosopher with that rarest of gifts: the ability to express profound ideas in elegant and limpid prose."
- Carl Trueman
Dozens of Catholic women who are medical professionals affirmed their support for Catholic teaching on abortion in a newly-released statement coordinated by EPPC’s
@CathWomensForum
.
In today’s
@nytopinion
special section featuring new ideas for a 28th amendment, EPPC Visiting Fellow
@xan_desanctis
makes the case for protecting the right to life of unborn persons:
Fellow
@AaronKheriatyMD
joined
@reason
Livestream to discuss his book, The New Abnormal, and the persistence of COVID mandates for K–12 schools, college campuses, and health care settings.
Today marks one year since the death of our beloved friend and colleague Michael Cromartie. Read tributes here from many of those who knew and loved Mike:
Letter from EPPC’s
@RyanTAnd
,
@akheriaty
,
@AaronRothstein
,
@RogerSeverino_
, and Rachel N. Morrison urges end to public health emergency, argues that “there is simply insufficient reason to mandate school closures, lockdowns, masking, or vaccination.”
Interested in learning more about the moral, medical & legal considerations of vaccine mandates, such as those for
#COVID19
?
Check out our vaccine webinar featuring EPPC President
@RyanTAnd
,
@RogerSeverino_
, Dr.
@akheriaty
, & Prof. Jason Eberle:
In
@nytopinion
,
@KSPrior
writes that EPPC “has developed a robust, holistic Life and Family Initiative aimed at protecting the lives of prenatal children and offering concrete support to the families in which they will be born.”
NEWS:
@andrewtwalk
has joined EPPC as a Fellow in our Evangelicals in Civic Life program, where he will focus on the intersection of Christian ethics, public theology, and the moral principles that support civil society and sound government:
NEWS: The board of directors of the Ethics and Public Policy Center takes great pleasure in announcing that political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson (
@RyanTAnd
) will become its sixth president on February 1, 2021. Full release here:
Episode 6 of LIFE AFTER DOBBS, featuring
@LiveAction
founder and president
@LilaGraceRose
, is out now! Listen to a clip of her conversation with
@RyanTAnd
and
@xan_desanctis
on the necessity of confronting the lies of the abortion industry.
Last February, Amazon delisted EPPC President
@RyanTAnd
’s “When Harry Became Sally” after having sold the book for three years. Learn more about this story, and the dangers of Big Tech censorship, in this video from the
@DailySignal
:
Today,
@SenatorLankford
and
@SenJohnThune
introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to protect infants who survive an attempted abortion and ensure that they receive the same care as any other newborn.
How should we think about the morality of the
#COVID19
vaccines?
Register now to hear remarks on this question & more from Dr.
@akheriaty
.
@RogerSeverino_
, Professor Jason Eberle & EPPC President
@RyanTAnd
Today could be the day!
Get ready for life after Dobbs (and, God willing, life after Roe) by listening to the latest episode of our podcast! This week,
@cartersnead
of EPPC &
@ND_EthicsCenter
joins
@RyanTAnd
&
@xan_desanctis
to discuss the legal & social catastrophe of abortion.
EPPC Scholars
@RyanTAnd
,
@erikabachiochi
, &
@PTBwrites
offer key principles in creating public policy that supports the family as a foundational institution in American life along with a coalition of like-minded scholars, writers, and legal experts.
Links will be up later for another important
@NRO
special issue -- this one takes on the penumbra-hiding abortion right, that act of "raw judicial power" better known as Roe v. Wade.
EPPC Board Member
@McCormickProf
, President
@RyanTAnd
, and Fellow
@andrewtwalk
signed a letter calling for the pro-life movement to focus on the constitutional principle of equal protection under the law.
The latest EPPC Briefly features
@akheriaty
on the biosecurity surveillance regime; Carl Trueman on decadence; Stanley Kurtz on CRT in schools;
@andrewtwalk
on why religious liberty is not ‘Christian nationalism’;
@noellem
on SF school board recall; & more
Interested in learning more about the Equality Act and what it means for Catholics? Join EPPC's
@RyanTAnd
,
@maryricehasson
, and Gabrielle Girgis, along with other leading scholars and experts, for a webinar *tonight* at 8 p.m. ET. Register here ->
“Whatever our vocation is, there’s a way we can plug into the pro-life movement to make a difference…There’s a role for everyone.”
At the “Life After Roe” symposium cosponsored by EPPC,
@Heritage
, and
@AUL
, EPPC President
@RyanTAnd
offered a charge to the pro-life movement:
"[Roe and Casey] have done grave harm to the Constitution, but more importantly, they allowed grave injustices to unborn human beings. And any moment that we wait is a moment too long to finally get rid of them."
@RyanTAnd
talks
#Dobbs
w/
@JBStonestreet
:
Hahaha. This is hilarious.
@VICENews
claims to have gotten “exclusive access to attend the private event” that
@EPPCdc
cosponsored with
@AUL
and
@Heritage
. The event wasn’t private. It was free, open to the public, live-streamed, and video archived.
Breaking: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has delayed consideration of new social studies standards after EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz raised concerns about the influence of activists pushing CRT and "action civics" ⤵️
TOMORROW:
@sbaprolife
president
@marjoriesba
joins
@RyanTAnd
and
@xan_desanctis
to discuss the state-by-state effort to advance pro-life policy in the wake of the Dobbs decision. Subscribe here or wherever you stream your podcasts:
“Democrats will be thankful if they lose only 20 to 35 House seats this fall. They know they could lose as many as 40 or even 50 seats, propelling Republicans to their greatest House majority since 1928.”
@henryolsenEPPC
on the wave coming this November:
EPPC Fellow
@cartersnead
’s WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN in
@nytimes
’s “Ten Books to Understand the Abortion Debate in the U.S.”:
“With insight and provocation, Snead, a bioethicist, examines the questions that abortion raises about the meaning of human life.”
George Weigel: “As the postmodern world loses its grip on the most fundamental truths, the earthiness of Christmas proclaims and celebrates an enfleshed, divine savior, once an infant, who ennobles and transforms all the givens of the human condition.”
In July 2008, Father Richard John Neuhaus delivered one of his final public addresses to the
@NRLC
convention. Today, we’re publishing the audio of that legendary speech for the first time:
@marcorubio
: “Ryan Anderson is among our nation's leading thinkers on morality and public policy. His writings on religious liberty, marriage, and the common good are filled with insights and profoundly illuminate critically important questions..."
Stanley Kurtz in
@NRO
today: “It takes guts to say no to a course that looks benign on the surface but is in fact filled with CRT and leftist propaganda. DeSantis has got guts.”
“All of our liberties have limits. And that’s true of parental rights as well. No one – including parents — should interfere with a child’s normal, natural bodily development,”
@RyanTAnd
tells
@FoxNews
.
NEW VIDEO: The Problem of Atheism: Del Noce, Marx, and the Roots of Western Irreligion
EPPC Sr. Fellow Francis X. Maier moderates this discussion with
@_CLancellotti
& EPPC Fellows
@akheriaty
& Carl Trueman on the enduring importance of Augusto Del Noce:
Very special episode of LIFE AFTER DOBBS coming Thursday morning: we’ve tracked down the audio of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’s legendary 2008 “we shall not weary, we shall not rest” speech, and we’re publishing it in full for the first time ever! Subscribe:
"My body is not a tool. My body is me."
TOMORROW: EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman joins
@RyanTAnd
and
@xan_desanctis
to discuss the human anthropology underlying the Pro-Life movement. Subscribe here or wherever you stream your podcasts:
Listen to Carl Trueman on the latest episode of LIFE AFTER DOBBS as he and our hosts,
@RyanTAnd
and
@xan_desanctis
, discuss the philosophical errors behind the abortion movement:
On Thursday, join Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier for an online panel conversation with
@NR_Institute
’s
@kathrynlopez
, Mary Ann Glendon, and Father Joseph Fessio on the legacy of the late Pope Benedict XVI. Register here:
We're pleased to welcome our newest fellow
@lumasimmsEPPC
, whose work will examine the individual, communal, ethical, religious, and philosophical dimensions of immigration:
Don't miss this week's EPPC Briefly, featuring Carl Trueman on the body and technology;
@RogerSeverino_
on taxpayer-funded abortion;
@andrewtwalk
on the Dems' abortion bill;
@akheriaty
on vaccine ethics;
@PTBwrites
on working families, and much, much more:
The reality is that too many people "have been locked out of" family life because they need to labor outside of the home. We need an economy that allows more people to choose to "care for a child or an elderly relative at home." Work in the home is real work. Family life matters.
The stage is set for EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel’s 20th William E. Simon Lecture, titled “The Pope We All Need: The Papacy and the Crisis of the West.” Follow along here for highlights from his remarks tonight, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET!
#SimonLecture
IN-PERSON EVENT: On July 20th at
@CICDC
, join EPPC Fellow
@erikabachiochi
for a discussion with Ashley McGuire & Mary Eberstadt on her new book 'The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision.' moderated by EPPC President
@RyanTAnd
Register here:
We’ve just finished recording a new episode of LIFE AFTER DOBBS, featuring
@EdWhelanEPPC
’s instant analysis of today’s Supreme Court ruling. We’re editing it now and will publish it shortly, so stay tuned!
THIS SUNDAY: In partnership with
@tikvahfund
and
@museumofBible
, EPPC is proud to sponsor a conversation between Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and
@McCormickProf
exploring the role of faith in navigating America's cultural and civic crossroads.