Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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In a shocking and first-of-its-kind reading of a more than 30-year-old disability law, a federal judge ruled that the distress that results from a person… Read More
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A federal district court in Texas issued an order Wednesday blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to force the state’s emergency room doctors to perform abortions—regardless of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Pro-abortion advocates are trying to muddy the definition of an abortion with muddy and obtuse moral reasoning. On Aug. 2, The New York Times published… Read More
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Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. In keeping a promise he made last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a bill modeled on… Read More
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Long before American independence, legislatures were enacting laws to restrict the killing of human beings before birth. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court put a… Read More
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The general has sounded the retreat. Will the soldiers follow? That is the question raised by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Supreme… Read More
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How do you solve a problem like a rogue agency? When a Democrat occupies the White House, you can be reasonably sure that administrative agencies… Read More
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In the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise, after originalism prevailed and the Supreme Court recognized in last month’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization… Read More
EducationCommentary
A few days after the momentous golden anniversary of Title IX—the federal civil rights law that prevents sex discrimination in any educational institution receiving government… Read More
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Economists tend to believe that they deserve deference on a broad range of public policy questions that involve much more than economic analysis. They often… Read More
