Back in August, see http://uffl.org/blog/?p=104, it appeared that the Washington Board of Pharmacy might alter its rules and protect conscience rights. But as LifeNews reports, http://www.lifenews.com/2010/12/20/state-5753/ , the Washington Board of Pharmacy has voted (5-1) to keep its rules, which fail to protect pharmacists with a conscientious objection to dispensing plan B, in place. 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
Here is another insightful piece by Michael New on the latest controversy about the link between abortion and women’s health. The Washington Post recently gave attention to a new article that allegedly refuted a study documenting that women who had abortions had an increased risk of various mental health problems. New explains that the study that the Post highlighted […]
The European Court of Human Rights has decided the Ireland abortion case. The Court held Ireland’s law violated one of the claimant’s rights by failing to provide a mechanism for her to obtain a legal abortion, which in Ireland is only available under limited circumstances. The decision doesn’t seem as bad as some had feared. […]
The European Court of Human Rights is expected to issue its ruling in an important abortion case from Ireland on Thursday December 16, 2010. http://www.lifenews.com/2010/12/15/wbs-112/ As the LifeNews story notes, there is a possibility that the Court will dismiss the case without reaching the merits. Bill Saunders has an article in the Suummer 2010 issue of the […]
Here is a link to a LifeNews story on the Obama Administration’s efforts to rescind the conscience regulations issued in the waning days of the Bush Administration. http://www.lifenews.com/2010/12/14/nat-6929/ This action wouldn’t change existing federal statutes that protect conscience rights but the Bush regulations were an important move in helping to implement the federal statutory protections. The […]
Christopher Kaczor has just published a new book entitled “The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice.” http://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Abortion-Question-Routledge-Bioethics/dp/0415884691 This is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. In the book, Kaczor defends the pro-life position with clarity and philosophical depth. Nearly half of the book discusses the personhood question. He also critically discusses […]
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Justice Brennan’s Legacy
Here is a link to an interesting piece by Gregory Sullivan entitled “William Brennan and the Creation of a Right to Abortion.” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/12/1993 Sullivan’s discusses the new, long-awaited biography of Justice William Brennan. http://www.amazon.com/Justice-Brennan-Champion-Seth-Stern/dp/0547149255 Sullivan notes in particular Brennan’s key role in the development of the right to privacy that provided the basis for Roe v. Wade. Richard […]
Here is a link to a recent article in Zenit entitled “For the Handicapped, Some are Quick to Kill; Preimplantation Diagnosis Makes Gains in Germany.” http://www.zenit.org/article-31186?l=english The article discusses recent developments in Germany allowing resort to preimplantation diagnosis. The pratice is prohibited by a 1991 German law protecting embryos but a recent court decision has opened […]
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A Century of Eugenics
Paul A. Lombardo, the author of an important book on Buck v. Bell, see http://www.amazon.com/Three-Generations-No-Imbeciles-Eugenics/dp/0801898242/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291911217&sr=1-1 , has a new book forthcoming entitled “A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era.” http://www.amazon.com/Century-Eugenics-America-Experiment-Humanities/dp/0253222699/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291911217&sr=1-2 The new book, an edited collection of mainly historical essays, is scheduled for release in early 2011 by Indiana University […]
That is the title of a recent piece by Maggie Datiles for the Culture of Life Foundation. http://culture-of-life.org//content/view/683/1/ In this piece, Datiles discusses “the legal and cultural battle to define pregnancy.” A particular focus is on the Obama Administration’s effort to include contraception and certain abortion drugs as “preventative care” and thus eligible for insurance coverage. Richard M.