Just in time for Mother’s Day, a rather long article on just when motherhood begins: Toward a Democratic Consensus on the Start of Life. If you care at all about the abortion question, read it. It’s big, but important. You will learn: Why the Court was correct to demand more than mere legislation to outlaw… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Morality
Rethinking Roe v. Wade
Things have been quiet here on the blog, but I have recently added a honkin-big study on the main site: A Fuzzy Workaround for Roe v. Wade. If you are pro life, it could be the most important article you read this year, or even decade. It outlines a legal strategy for restricting abortion which… Continue Reading
Taking on the Abortion Issue
I haven’t made enough political enemies yet. So I guess it’s time to take on the most rancorous, divisive issue of all: the abortion question. I jest, slightly. Part of me wishes I could avoid the issue entirely, as it divides both the liberal, conservative, and libertarian camps. And it will divide the new Upper… Continue Reading
Whose Morality?
Another update of the On Enforcing Morality book: Whose Morality? It’s all well and good to say the government should make people better, but who gets to determine what is better? The original edition focused on the danger of enforcing morality in that the immoral vote, and can enforce immorality. This lesson remains — because… Continue Reading
The Most Unpleasant Holiday of the Year
It is that time of the year again: time to go without food or liquid from sunset to sunset. It is the Day of Atonement, one of the seven Holy Days of the year given in the Bible, a day observed by Jews and a small minority of Christians. I hate it. I hate fasting.… Continue Reading