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The Snowflake Chronicles is a series of short books that aims to challenge, move and stir us to think about issues that provoke the political status quo. INTRODUCTION BY ROGER FRANKLINFOREWORD BY CHRIS ASHTON Everyone has an opinion on abortion, usually a very strongly held one. Sometimes it appears we keep having the same conversations and the same arguments about it without getting anywhere. The hope of this book is that people will take a fresh look at this contentious topic, taking in the science and philosophy on which abortion arguments are based. Also discussed is how breakthroughs in medical science may pave the way for a possible compromise between the pro-life and pro-choice positions. Right Thinking on Abortion is the first in The Snowflake Chronicles series that explores contemporary hot-button issues. Nicola Wright is passionate about liberty and human flourishing and has an interest in free speech advocacy, and resisting the 'nanny state'. She is the Managing Editor at LibertyWorks Inc., a free-market libertarian think-tank, and has written for The Spectator Australia, Online Opinion, Spiked Online and Quillette.

Mounting pressure to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia is a one-way ratchet asserting the primacy of individual choice. Euthanasia advocates insist nothing can ever outweigh that choice.But in this book, Peter Kurti argues these demands need to be resisted because of the impact individual choice about assisted suicide will have on wider society - on the family, on friends, on the local community.Legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide enshrines in law a rejection of the duties we owe to others and the claims others have upon us. It will destroy family relationships, damage the trust we place in the medical profession, and corrode the bonds of civil society forged between individuals within communities. In his answers to seven key questions about euthanasia and assisted suicide, Kurti argues that when society permits some of its citizens to be killed, it tears the fabric of community and threatens to put the culture itself to death.

In this book, Jeremy Sammut shows why the support of big business in that campaign could be just the beginning of corporate meddling in politically-contentious issues to come. Companies will become political players campaigning for 'systemic change' behind 'progressive' social, environmental, and economic causes if the Corporate Social Responsibility - CSR - activists operating inside Australia business get their way. The notion that corporations need a 'social license to operate' threatens to give business leaders a license to play politics on company time - and with shareholders' money. But to ensure the business of business remains business and not politics, it is not enough simply to complain about the takeover of business by 'corporate lefties'.

From Chapter 1:Once a week in a conference room in Salt Lake City, in the American state of Utah, a dozen people gather for a session of climate change grief counselling. Convened by a Laura Schmidt, a full-time activist with a masters in environmental humanities, the sessions permit the participants to vent over all the things not being done about climate change, and how the participants themselves are doing things that contribute to a problem (such as drive cars to the meetings, we suppose) that they imagine will affect their loved ones. One tale to emerge from these fraught sessions is that of a woman who, when confronted by piles of merchandise in a store produced and packaged in all sorts of energy-intensive ways, had to retreat to her car to recover for a time before she could face shopping again. Ms Schmidt, who organised additional sessions following the election of Donald Trump as American president (Trump easily won Utah, a traditionally Republican state), has developed a ten-step coping program loosely based on the Alcoholics Anonymous program to cope with this sort of stress.