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Book: Choose Life

Collected here in one place, CHOOSE LIFE offers reasonable pro-life responses from leading experts in their respective fields.

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A Post-Roe Legislative Agenda for Congress

In the event that Roe v. Wade is overturned this summer, pro-life legislators must act to protect human life in the womb. They should introduce legislation to recognize the personhood of the unborn, strip the ability of federal courts to hear challenges to this recognition, create a private right of action to help enforce anti-abortion policy, and use the taxing power to cripple the abortion industry.

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Abortion is Already Illegal

Established wisdom tells us that even if the Supreme Court reversed course on abortion, each state would be allowed to decide whether or not it should be permitted. But is that really true?

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John Finnis is Right

Whelan, like the late Justice Antonin Scalia, believes that, as an originalist matter, the question of abortion must be determined through the democratic process in the states. Having recently debated Whelan on this topic, I think none of his three objections to Finnis withstand close scrutiny.

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The Lincoln Proposal

Americans need not accept an interminable status quo of indifference toward the rights of the child, due either to the timidity of our political elite or to the presumption of our judiciary class. The ‘Lincoln Proposal’ offers pro-life presidents the clearest way to confront Roe v. Wade’s jurisprudence of violence and doubt and to protect the constitutional rights of preborn persons.

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‘Unalienable Rights’ Made America Great

The international human rights project stands at a crossroads between the doctrine of natural rights espoused by the Declaration of Independence and a progressive view that treats human rights as the pragmatic result of historical processes and power disparities.

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Life, Liberty, and Law: Originalism, ‘prenatal personhood,’ and the ‘abortion is a positive good’ narrative

America was founded with a commitment to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So how is it that America remains so confused about the full scope of human rights? And why are abortion activists going so far as to embrace John C. Calhoun's pro-slavery logic—treating abortion as if it weren't simply an unfortunate but tolerable practice, but instead callously promoting abortion as a "positive good" for America and all developed nations?

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The Pro-Life Reply to: “Abortion is a Constitutional Right”

Pro-life advocates regularly hear the claim "Abortion is Constitutional" in order to justify the killing of preborn children.

In this video, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy explains why abortion is unconstitutional, and preborn children are entitled to constitutional protection under the 14th Amendment.

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