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Taking Rites Seriously: Neither Theocracy nor Liberal Hegemony
Media Asset
Author: Francis J. Beckwith
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Category: Philosophy, Property Rights
In this plenary address from the 2021 Austrian Economic Research Conference, Francis Beckwith explains the many threats to natural rights that have evolved out of political authorities’ refusal to understand and recognize the meaning and importance of religious rites.  The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation.
Consent, Sex, and the Prenatal Rapist: A Brief Reply to McDonaghs’s Suggested Revision of Roe v. Wade
Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Francis J. Beckwith Steven D. Thomas
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Category: Other Schools of Thought, Legal System
The abortion debate is often understood to hinge on the question of whether or not the fetus is a full-fledged member of the moral community of persons and/or possesses a property or properties that make it the sort of being that it is prima facie wrong to kill. This is the position taken by Justice Harry A. Blackmun in Roe v. Wade as well