Category: Abortion debate

Former State Lawmaker Defeats Incumbent Senator in Virginia Democrat Primary

Former state lawmaker Lashrecse Aird on Tuesday defeated incumbent Sen. Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond) in a closely-watched Democrat state primary race in Virginia in which a major campaign issue was abortion. Morrissey, who is pro-life—the only such Democrat in the Virginia state Senate—represents District 16. A former prosecutor turned defense attorney, Morrissey has been disbarred twice. He’s regarded as…


John Stuart Mill Versus the New Totalitarians

Commentary I have expended a fair amount of ink criticizing John Stuart Mill’s ideas about liberty in his (in)famous 1859 pamphlet “On Liberty.” I think that Mill’s greatest critic, James Fitzjames Stephen, was right about Mill. In his devastating polemic “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” Stephen criticized various aspects of Mill’s teaching, especially the anemic, abstract nature…


The Problems of Motives and Research

Commentary We live in an age of suspicion to a degree that I don’t remember from my youth—though I admit that my memory is fallible, and I may be mistaken in this. Perhaps we are no more suspicious of the motives of those with whom we disagree than ever we were, and we always thought…


Philadephia Violates Hyde Amendment by Using Tax Dollars to Fund Abortions: Attorney

PHILADELPHIA—Thomas W. King III, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm, states that the allocation of public funds for abortion violates both the federal Hyde Amendment and Pennsylvania’s state version of the legislative provision. On Aug. 16, King and three other attorneys representing Philadelphia residents filed a lawsuit against the…


Philadelphia Violates Hyde Amendment by Using Tax Dollars to Fund Abortions: Attorney

PHILADELPHIA—Thomas W. King III, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm, states that the allocation of public funds for abortion violates both the federal Hyde Amendment and Pennsylvania’s state version of the legislative provision. On Aug. 16, King and three other attorneys representing Philadelphia residents filed a lawsuit against the…


US Will ‘Continue to Provide Seamless Access’ to Abortion in Military: Defense Secretary

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a statement suggesting that the Defense Department intends to maintain the military’s access to abortion. “Nothing is more important to me or to this Department than the health and well-being of our Service members, the civilian workforce, and DOD…


Defense Secretary: Military to ‘Continue to Provide Seamless Access’ to Abortion

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a statement suggesting that the Defense Department intends to maintain the military’s access to abortion. “Nothing is more important to me or to this Department than the health and well-being of our Service members, the civilian workforce, and DOD…


Canada Open to Americans Seeking Abortions: Minister of Families

Following the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, Canada’s minister for families, children, and social development has said that her country welcomes Americans who wish to cross the border for abortions. “I don’t see why we would not,” Minister Karina Gould told CBC News. “If…