Colleagues involved in linguistic study may find Google’s Ngram feature helpful as a starting point for discussion about the use of words over the centuries. A word of caution, though: entering the words “abortion,” “infanticide,” and “euthanasia” results in a graph which may be misleading. As pro-life scholars know, “abortion” was often called “infanticide” by British […]
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Transfer of copyright agreements
A colleague has been asked to submit a paper to the US-China Education Review. A stipulation of the editor is that a “transfer of copyright agreement” should accompany the article. If anyone has experience with such agreements, please contact me at [email protected]; I will forward your comments as appropriate.
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selective reduction
Here is a link to a recent story in the Canadian press about the increase in selective reductions. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/When+twins+many/3960709/story.html The article focuses on an Ontario couple. The wife was pregnant with twins but she found a doctor who was willing to “reduce” the pregnancy “from twins to a singleton.” As the article described this trend: “The […]
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update on Phoenix abortion case
Here is link to my post on the Mirror of Justice blog that describes the developments. http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/12/recent-developments-in-the-phoenix-abortion-case.html After a review, Bishop Olmsted concluded that St. Joseph Hospital could no longer identify itself as a Catholic hospital. Richard M.
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.
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 […]