Moschella, Melissa
14 Articles at Lifeissues.net

Melissa Moschella recently earned her PhD in politics at Princeton University.

Articles

California "Transgender Refuge" Bill Usurps Parental Rights and Endangers Children

If Governor Newsom signs California's transgender youth "refuge" bill into law, it will be one of the most explicit and radical assaults on parental rights that our nation has ever seen. While debates about how best to care for children with gender dysphoria are ongoing, one thing is clear: encouraging troubled children to run away from home and dividing them from their parents is certain to inflict great harm.

Date posted: 2022-09-25

Natural Law, the Common Good, and Limited Government: Friends, Not Foes

Traditional conservatives and others committed to the principles of limited government have nothing to fear from natural law-based accounts of the political common good. In fact, natural law accounts offer the strongest principled basis for defending liberty and limited government by showing how such values are themselves core aspects of the common good.

Date posted: 2022-08-18

The Ethics of Abortion: Clarifying Misconceptions

Articulating and responding to common misconceptions concerning the ethics of abortion will help to clarify and advance the debate, moving past misleading slogans to engage in a forthright and respectful public dialogue in the wake of Dobbs, and seeking to build a genuine culture of life that supports the needs of both women and children.

Date posted: 2022-07-23

Critical Race Theory, Public Schools, and Parental Rights

Today, in Part I of this essay, I explain critical race theory and show how many of its ideas have made their way into public schools across the country, prompting a backlash that has led to the introduction of anti-CRT education regulations in many states. CRT views values like "objectivity" as tools of oppression. It's clear that many public schools are indeed incorporating plenty of CRT-inspired ideas like these in their curricula.

Date posted: 2022-04-28

Critical Race Theory, Public Schools, and Parental Rights

Today, in Part I of this essay, I explain critical race theory and show how many of its ideas have made their way into public schools across the country, prompting a backlash that has led to the introduction of anti-CRT education regulations in many states. CRT views values like "objectivity" as tools of oppression. It's clear that many public schools are indeed incorporating plenty of CRT-inspired ideas like these in their curricula.

Date posted: 2022-04-28

The COVID Vaccines Are Not "Morally Compromised"

The use of HEK 293 or similar cell lines in no way perpetuates the grave injustice of abortion or implies approval of abortion. To call a cell line, a vaccine, a railroad, a medication, or any other physical thing morally compromised is simply a category mistake, because good and evil are characteristics of the human will, not of physical things.

Date posted: 2021-01-13

Parental and Governmental Authority in Medical Decisions: The Tragic Case of Charlie Gard

By preventing Charlie Gard from receiving further medical treatment, the United Kingdom is exceeding its legitimate authority, and violating the right of Connie Yates and Chris Gard to make an intimate and important family decision about how best to care for their sick child.

Date posted: 2017-09-24

To Whom Do Children Belong? A Defense of Parental Authority

Parents have unique authority over their children because they bear non-transferable obligations toward their children. The state must respect the right of parents to fulfill their duties toward their children. The second in a two-part series.

Date posted: 2015-11-19

To Whom Do Children Belong? How Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Parental Rights

Same-sex marriage further encourages the state to encroach on the domain of that indispensable pre-political community, the family. The first in a two-part series.

Date posted: 2015-11-13

The Fundamental Case for Parental Rights

Do the right and the responsibility to educate children belong primarily to parents, or to the state? And who should win when parents and the state disagree over educational content, methods, and goals? (Parents have a fundamental right to raise and educate their children as they see fit. Their authority precedes that of the state.)

Date posted: 2015-01-03

To Whom Do Children Belong?

Children's relationship to the political community is fundamentally different from that of adults, because it is mediated through their belonging to a family and living under the authority of their parents.

Date posted: 2013-07-19

Religious Freedom's Legal and Moral Basis (Part 2)

The right to religious freedom was crucial to the Founders' vision of America. Religious freedom is a right to be protected because it enables us to fulfill our human obligation to seek the truth. The second in a two-part series.

Date posted: 2012-10-09

Religious Freedom Under Fire (Part I)

The threats to religious freedom in our nation are real, and they are serious. And things will get worse unless we defend our rights. The first in a two-part series.

Date posted: 2012-10-09

Taking (Conscience) Rights Seriously

As a pluralistic liberal democracy, we should craft our laws so that individuals will never be unnecessarily coerced into violating their consciences.

Date posted: 2012-10-09