Unalienable Rights, Alien Populations and Natural Law: Unspoken Assumptions and Hidden Agendas of...

Legitimate reasons exist for conversation and debate about the scope, direction, and methods of U.S. human rights policy. However, the State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights – hatched from the inventive and restless minds of conservative Catholics (specifically, Princeton University professor Robby George), with no consultation from existing State Department institutions already tasked with defending human rights around the world, and with a gauzy, diverse, goony, and already fracturing member list of uncertain provenance beyond their personal connection to Mike Pompeo and their personal commitment to an anti-reproductive-rights “natural law” lens on human rights – will not be the venue for this conversation.