Here are stories from the National Right to Life News and LifeNews on a lawsuit that has been filed challenging the constitutionality of Idaho’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which bans abortion after 20 weeks to prevent fetal pain. http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2011/09/idaho-woman-challenges-unborn-child-pain-protection-act/ and http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/31/first-lawsuit-filed-on-fetal-pain-based-20-week-abortion-ban/ Richard M.
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
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more on selective reduction
On the Mirror of Justice blog, here is an excellent post by John Breen. http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/08/michael-new-selective-reduction-reveals-a-weakness-in-the-armor-of-choice.html Breen focuses on an analysis by Michael New from NRO. Perhaps the concerned reactions of pro-choice advocates to the NY Times story reveal a natural human response to the taking of an innocent human life. Selective reduction, just as did partial birth […]
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“No One Dies Alone”
Here is a very encouraging blog post by Wesley Smith reporting on the “No One Dies Alone” program.http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/08/27/no-one-dies-alone/ The program relies on volunteers to spend time with and to provide support for patients who would otherwise die alone. What a great form of solidarity and of true compassion. Richard M.
Here is a good article by Bill Saunders on the NY Times article on “selective reduction.” http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/24/selective-reduction-abortions-higlight-art-problems/ Richard M.
Here is the Lifenews story on Vice-President’s remarks on China’s one-child policy. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/22/biden-to-china-not-second-guessing-one-child-policy/ Biden said he wasn’t “second-guessing” China’s policy, although he did note that the policy was not sustainable because there wouldn’t be enough young people to support any sort of social safety net for the elderly. Biden ignored the coercive measures (forced abortions and […]
Here is a new article by Priscilla Smith (“Give Justice Ginsburg What She Wants: Using Sex Equality Arguments to Demand Examination of the Legitimacy of State Interests in Abortion Regulation“) advocating that pro-abortion litigants use sex discrimination arguments in challenging laws restricting abortion. Priscilla Smith is a former attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights. Erika Bachiochi’s […]
Here is a link to another NY Times article discussing the ethical implications of pre-natal tests that allow pregnant women to learn the sex of their unborn children.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/sunday-review/if-you-really-really-wanted-a-girl.html The article focuses on the new tests that allow women to learn the sex of their baby very early during pregnancy, with the concern that this will increase abortions for reasons of sex-selection. […]
Last week, I posted an item about the NY Times story on selective reduction. http://uffl.org/blog/?p=1493 There has been continuing commentary on this story. Here are links to a couple of posts on the Mirror of Justice blog. Here http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/08/the-failure-of-liberal-bioethics.html and http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/08/the-real-test-of-pro-choice-honesty.html Richard M.
Here is a link to Frank Beckwith’s recent column discussing Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous article entitled “A Defense of Abortion.” http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/thomsons-defense-of-abortion-at-forty.html In the article, Thomson presented the violinist analogy. Frank’s discussion in this column criticizes Thomson’s analogy for “not really granting the pro-life view of persoonhood.” He concludes this column with this paragraph: “Because of these institutions and ways […]
The New York Times magazine has a story entitled “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/magazine/the-two-minus-one-pregnancy.html?_r=1, which deals with “selective reduction. Here is a commentary from LifeNews. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/new-york-times-touts-selective-reduction-as-a-half-abortion/ Richard M.