Many have complained that cases that involve abortion seem to be subject to a special set of rules–rules that have had the effect of advancing abortion rights. Mark Rienzi, who teaches law at Catholic University, takes up the question whether there is an abortion exception to the first amendment. His paper evaluates recent efforts to regulate speech about alternatives to abortion. His conclusion […]
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How “Happy Holidays” Hurts
Not directly pro-life, this post is relevant to the issue of how points of view are excluded from the public square for quite unfounded reasons: Good people are often mystified at the offense taken by many Christians to the salutation “Happy Holidays!” After all, they reason, the word “holidays” includes everyone, instead of excluding anyone, […]
Here is the story from LifeNews. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/07/shock-41-of-new-york-city-pregnancies-end-in-abortion/ Here is coverage from the National Right to Life Committee. http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/index.html Richard M.
Colleagues involved in stem cell research or students writing papers on the topic may find information on the John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute website helpful. Donations to The John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute are tax-deductible. Please check the institute’s website for more information: http://jp2sri.org/.
History and legal students and scholars may find an updated legislative fact sheet from Ohio RTL helpful in their research. Stephanie Krider, Director of Legislative Affairs for Ohio RTL, has compiled a brochure on Ohio laws concerning the life issues. Please call or email her for a copy of “Facts of Life—Ohio Laws REVISED”: [email protected] […]
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The Unborn Paradox
Here is a link to Ross Douthat’s recent (January 2, 2011) column with the above title in the New York Times. Here is his conclusion: “This is the paradox of America’s unborn. No life is so desperately sought after, so hungrily desired, so carefully nurtured. And yet no life is so legally unprotected, and so […]
The Obama Administration has shelved the end of life counseling regulations. Here are links to Wesley Smith’s commentary. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/01/05/medicare-end-of-life-counseling-now-to-be-removed-from-regulations/ http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/01/05/end-of-life-care-counseling-whiplash-part-2/ Richard M.
Here is a link (below) to a Washington Post story about the increasing number of laws that states have passed restricting abortion. The article focuses on Nebraska’s law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy to prevent fetal pain. The article notes that the US Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which […]
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Obamacare and death panels
There has been a lot of discussion about a new federal regulation that allegedly will bring death panels into federal health care. Wesley Smith has several good posts on the controversy. He concludes that the death panel charge is an overreaction but that health care rationing is still a “clear and present danger.” Here are links […]
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Review of Cornwell’s book on Newman
Anne Barbeau Gardiner’s review of John Cornwell’s Newman’s Unquiet Grave (Continuum, 2010) is now available. Please email me for the full text.