Here is a link (from the National Right to Life News and the blog of Peter Saunders) to a troubling instance of assisted suicide. http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2011/04/nanmaitland1/ Richard M.
That’s the report on Wesley Smith’s blog. See http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/03/31/culture-of-death-elderly-belgian-couple-euthanized-together/ Smith asks: “Why is anyone surprised? Once we accept killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, there are no brakes. Belgium is merely jumping the most enthusiastically off the vertical moral cliff.” Richard M.
The Arizona legislature has passed a law banning abortions for reasons of race and sex. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/30/arizona-brewer-signs-ban-on-sex-selection-race-based-abortions/ Here is an earlier post on this issue. http://uffl.org/blog/?p=543 Richard M.
Ellen McCormack, pro-life candidate in the Democratic primaries for president in the 1970s, has died. Interested persons may wish to balance the obituary of the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/us/30mccormack.html?_r=1) with that of Dr. Michael New (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263499/ellen-mccormack-rip-michael-j-new). Thanks to Dr. Jane Gilroy, author of the definitive biography about Ellen McCormack’s presidential bids, for this information.
Life & Learning XVIII is now available on the University Faculty for Life website, and will be available in a print version soon. See http://www.uffl.org/lifelearningxviii.html These papers are from the 2008 University Faculty for Life conference at Marquette. Thanks to Father Koterski for his work in editing this volume. This volume includes papers by (in order of […]
The Ave Maria Law Review (Vol. 9; Issue 1)(2010) has just published a symposium on “The Future of Rights of Conscience in Health Care.” The symposium grew out of a conference that Lynn Wardle (BYU) and I organized. The conference was generously supported by University Faculty for Life and was also sponsored by the J. Reuben […]
Michael New recently published a study that demonstrates that parental notice laws reduce abortion rates by 15%. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/28/study-pro-life-parental-notification-laws-reduce-abortions-15/ Richard M.
The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network is sponsoring a symposium on end-of-life issues on March 31, 2011. The symposium, which will be held at Ave Maria School of Law, is entitled “The Erosion of Medical Ethics.” Here is a link to the Lifenews story on the symposium. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/28/terri-schiavos-family-sponsors-symposium-on-end-of-life-issues/ Richard M.
Here is a report (“Wave of anti-abortion bills advance in the states”) from the Associated Press on new legislation restricting abortion. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ANTI_ABORTION_SURGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Richard M.
Courtesy of Frank Zapatka (Emeritus Professor at American U), here are some reflections on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. Joyce Carol Oates, non-practicing Catholic, self-professed atheist, friend of fellow Princeton faculty member Peter Singer, prolific fiction and non-fiction writer and a 2010 National Humanities medalist, published in 2009 a short story collection titled […]