Published Date: May 12, 2016 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Politics and Current Affairs
By Robert P. George & Ramesh Ponnuru May 12, 2016 8:00 AM From the May 9, 2016, issue of NR Should the government punish women who procure abortions? Most pro-lifers say no, but all parties to the debate over abortion have considered the question an uncomfortable one. It appears to put them in an unwinnable […]
Published Date: January 8, 2019 | Topics: Natural Law, Philosophy
(from John Keown and Robert P. George, editors, Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis) Robert P. George “There are human goods that can be secured only through the institutions of human law, and requirements of practical reasonableness that only those institutions can satisfy.” With these words, John Finnis, while still in his […]