Here is a link to a LifeNews story on an encouraging ruling from a federal judge that held unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds a Baltimore law that targeted pregancy aid centers. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/28/judge-strikes-baltimore-law-targeting-pregnancy-centers/ On January 11, 2011, I posted a link to an article by Professor Mark Rienzi (from CUA law school) addressing this topic. http://uffl.org/blog/?p=432 This decision is […]
Author: Richard Myers
Richard S. Myers, the Vice-President of UFL, is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, and Religious Freedom. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College and earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school's highest academic prize. He began his legal career by clerking for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Myers also worked for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. He taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law before joining the Ave Maria faculty. He is a co-editor of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition: Contemporary Perspectives (Catholic University of American Press, 2004) and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has also published extensively on constitutional law in law reviews and also testified before Congressional and state legislative hearings on life issues.
Married to Mollie Murphy, who is also on the faculty at Ave Maria School of Law, they are the proud parents of six children - Michael, Patrick, Clare, Kathleen, Matthew, and Andrew. http://www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=faculty.bio&pid=11705E7D4E0111010366
Here is a link to Michael New’s comment on a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study released by the NEJM allegedly refutes the link between abortion and an increased risk of mental health problems. New explains the flaws in the NEJM study. New’s comment also includes a link to a Priscilla Coleman’s […]
The March for Life this last Monday was a great success, and a testimony to the growing appeal of the culture of life to young people. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/youthful-march-life_536951.html The event was ignored by a lot of the media. See this LifeNews story. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/26/abc-cbs-nbc-new-york-times-all-ignore-march-for-life/ Here is a link to a story in the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012402577.html Here is a link […]
Here is Wesley Smith’s commentary on some of the problems with a Vermont bill that would legalize assisted suicide. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/01/24/vermont-assisted-suicide-bill-the-usual-loophole-scam/ Richard M.
That’s the headline of a New York Times article from Jan. 21, 2011. The November elections brought pro-life gains in many states and this has improved the climate for pro-life legislation. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/us/politics/22abortion.html?_r=1 Richard M.
The Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life has announced its inaugural Notre Dame Vita Institute. The Institute is a two-week educational program designed to help equip participants to more effectively engage the culture on beginning of life issues. The program will be at Notre Dame from June 12-24, 2011; the application deadline is March 1. https://sites.google.com/a/nd.edu/the-notre-dame-fund-to-protect-human-life/project-guadalupe/Notre-Dame-Vita-Institute Richard M.
Here is an encouraging story about the founding of the Pro-life Professors’ Association in Korea. http://www.cathnewsindia.com/2011/01/20/korean-professors-form-anti-abortion-group/# Richard M.
Here is a link to a press release from the European Centre for Law and Justice on a recent decision from the European Court of Human Rights on assisted suicide. http://www.eclj.org/Releases/Read.aspx?GUID=f47f9a82-9459-4a51-9c4d-eb3db0ff3cf3&s=eur The decision rejected the claim of a man who claimed a right to obtain a lethal drug without a prescription, as Swiss law requires. Here is the […]
This story, which has been generating an enormous amount of media coverage, is almost beyond belief. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/us/20doctor.html Here is a story from the National Right to Life Committee. http://www.nrlc.org/news_and_views/Jan2011/nv011911.html Here is commentary from Wesley Smith. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/01/21/philadelphia-abortion-abattoir-consistent-with-peter-singer-values/ Richard M.
Here, below, is the link to the 12th annual Cardinal O’Connor conference. This will be a terrific conference. The conference is sponsored by Georgetown University Right to Life, Georgetown University Knights of Columbus, Georgetown University Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and University Faculty for Life. http://www.cardinaloconnorconference.com/ Richard M.