In our commentary, read about the political and cultural issues affecting Tennesseans written from a conservative perspective. Columns are typically written by Dr. Kent DelHousaye, a trained political theologian and a longtime pastor and the current FACT president.
Schumer’s Attack on Supreme Court Justices—Mission Accomplished
Mar 13, 2020 by David Fowler
In my view, most pundits completely missed the point of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s attack on Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh last week when the U.S. Supreme Court was hearing arguments on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s abortion law requiring abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges.
The Pro-Life Issue That Stopped Me in My Tracks
Feb 28, 2020 by David Fowler
Next week we will see the details of Governor Lee’s proposed legislation on abortion. In anticipation of that, a friend suggested to me last week that I pull together in one article a summary of the key points I’ve made over recent months about how to evaluate abortion legislation. In doing so, I hit a criterion that literally stopped me in my writing tracks. But after something I said last week, I realized it was, for me, the criterion by which the others were to be evaluated.
Will SCOTUS Use Louisiana’s Abortion Law to Overturn Roe v. Wade?
Feb 14, 2020 by David Fowler
In August, members of the Judiciary Committee of the Tennessee Senate heard two pro-life legal experts say that it was not wise to enact any legislation that challenges the legitimacy of Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and its progenitor, Roe v. Wade (1973). They said abortion laws that didn’t challenge Roe and Casey could still be used by the Court to overrule them. I just learned why that advice should be taken with a grain of salt and why it is highly unlikely SCOTUS will reverse Roe/Casey this summer.
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