The willy-nilly manufacture of rights*

by Lucy Sullivan

It was with a feeling of relief that I read in Terri Kelleher’s article (News Weekly, August 10, 2019) that the United States, of all the apparently unlikely places, is making a move to control the untrammelled manufacture of “rights” of the last few decades in which only to lay claim to some condition has been to have it accepted as a right and put it into law. A system of law that protects the citizen from oppressive restrictions has not been enough; there must furthe…

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