NLF Weighs in on Abortion in Supreme Court
NLF in its amicus brief in the Supreme Court points out a methodological flaw in the “undue burden” analysis in recent abortion cases.
January 6, 2020
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The Supreme Court Will Consider Whether a State Can Deny a Tax Credit for Scholarship Contributions Solely Because Some Are Later Provided to Religious Schools
A state may not refuse tax credits for contributions solely because some resulting scholarships go to religious schools.
October 7, 2019
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The Ministerial Exception Has a Broad Reach
The ministerial exception covers more than just churches and schools.
October 3, 2019
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Why Is Justice Thomas on the Warpath Against Abortion?
Justice Thomas in two concurrences to denial of cert excoriates the Court’s abortion case law.
July 17, 2019
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Ad Hominem Attacks Erupt When Reason Fails
Project Blitz is attacked with ad hominem, rather than reason.
April 26, 2019
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What’s at the Bottom of Abortion Rights? An Understandable, but False, Syllogism
Abortion is not properly upheld as providing equal rights for women.
April 19, 2019
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Is the Mother in “Involuntary” Servitude to Her Unborn Child?
Carrying a child to term is not “involuntary servitude under the Thirteenth Amendment
March 7, 2019
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Is Atheism Religion Under the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses?
It is not uncommon for philosophers and social commentators to refer to any overarching belief system as a religion. For example, just out from Daniel Mahoney is The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (2018), in which he argues that secular humanism is treated as ultimate truth by many and,
January 14, 2019
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The People have already spoken on abortion, Part 2
In part 1 of this blog, I suggested that a plain reading of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment included the unborn in the class of “any person” to whom are given the benefits of due process and equal protection from the reaches of the States and (through the Fifth Amendment) the Federal Government before
October 15, 2018
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The People have already spoken on abortion, Part 1
Roe v. Wade has frequently been criticized because it has taken out of the democratic process the decision of when life begins and when a fetus should achieve legal rights. Allowing individual States to make the decisions, those who advance this argument says, will help unify us (at least those of us whose voice can
September 26, 2018
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