This appendix expands on my discussion, in Part IV, of the constitutionality of §939.75(2)(b)(1) of the Wisconsin Code if the Personhood Amendment passes AND Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court at some future date AND abortion-rights advocates … Continue reading
This post is a direct continuation of Part III of my series on Personhood Wisconsin. I am not even stopping to breathe, much less to recap the discussion for those of you just joining us. If you want to catch … Continue reading
If you have not read my introduction to the Wisconsin Personhood initiative, please read that first. You might also wish to read the second article in this series, which discussed Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s public claims about the Personhood Amendment. We now … Continue reading
If you have not read my introduction to the Wisconsin Personhood initiative, please read that first. This post deals with Wisconsin Right-to-Life’s public claims about Personhood. For a discussion of the (substantially different) arguments employed by its legal white paper, … Continue reading
The battle for the soul of the pro-life movement is being waged between a pair of cheap office suites in the Milwaukee suburbs. In the challenger’s corner, scrappy Pro-Life Wisconsin is working to pass an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution … Continue reading
One of the things that makes it difficult to track the Divorce Revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s (and its many dire consequences) is the fact that, after California “started” the revolution on January 1, 1970, the effective date … Continue reading
If you read this blog, you are probably already aware of the lawsuit the supporters of the Minnesota marriage amendment have filed against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. As the local paper-of-record relates: In late June, Secretary of State Mark … Continue reading
I still have to read Ginsburg’s opinion and the Scalia opinion’s rabid concurrence with Roberts on the broccoli horrible, but I’ve read everything Roberts and Scalia et al. had to say about the taxing power in NFIB v Sebelius (aka … Continue reading
Q: I thought Santorum won Minnesota’s primary. Now Paul says he won the caucus? What? A: Santorum won a non-binding beauty contest vote in February. Ron Paul won the state on Saturday. Minnesota does not have a primary. We have … Continue reading
Have you heard that “abortions are only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does”? That number is sort of true, but there are a lot of problems with it, as has been ably documented elsewhere. It’s been a tedious little irritant … Continue reading