Here is an interesting post from Wesley Smith about Oregon’s assisted suicide law and doctor-shopping. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/10/27/as-i-have-been-saying-for-more-than-10-years-oregon-assisted-suicide-leads-to-doctor-shopping/ As Smith describes the phenomenon, doctor-shopping involves “suicidal people looking for death doctors to write the lethal prescription, with that being the only reason for the consultation–as in Jack Kevorkian.” Smith’s post discusses a recent report by a British group that […]
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Colorado personhood amendment loses
The Colorado personhood amendment lost by a large margin. Here is a link to the LifeNews story. http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/03/state-5640/ Richard M.
Colleagues who presented papers at the International Association of Asian Studies earlier this year may be contacted by the US-China Education Review. A UFL colleague will submit his paper on abortion in the works of Mo Yan and would be happy to assist others in the preparation of their work.
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Literary research tip
Colleagues who conduct online research are familiar with statewide services like OhioLINK that use Library of Congress subject headings in their library catalogs. (OhioLINK is the consortium that connects virtually all of the libraries of private and public colleges and universities in Ohio). You may also want to conduct literary research using the “search inside this […]
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Scholarship on election data needed
Political Science colleagues or others who research election data are needed to analyze yesterday’s midterm elections in the United States. I am particularly interested in: 1. the strength of the pro-life vote; 2. the shift in the political affiliation of Hispanic/Latino voters to the Republican Party; and 3. the effect of voter surveys conducted by […]
Here is Austin Ruse’s decidedly negative evaluation of the recent Princeton conference on abortion. http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/pro-life-naifs-in-the-big-city.html Richard M.
I just read an interesting article with the title “Rules for Radical Lawyers: Advancing the Abortion Rights of Inmates” by Mark Egerman of the National Abortion Federation. (See http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1554401) The article deals with an issue that has received a lot of attention in the literature. Many scholars have focused on the backlash caused by litigation […]
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Jewish Pro-Life Foundation
Colleagues who need information about Judaism’s view on the life issue of abortion may find the website of the Jewish Pro-life Federation helpful: http://web.me.com/tomcecilysam/Jewish_Pro-Life_Foundation/Home.html.
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Hospice Patients Alliance
Colleagues involved in research affecting the terminally ill may be interested in the following initiative. Jane St. Clair, author of Walk Me to Midnight (Waterford, VA: Capstone Fiction, 2007) writes that the Hospice Patients Alliance “has sent over 500 emails to candidates for Senate and US House of Representatives, asking for their views on assisted suicide and how […]
Rick Garnett’s recent post ( http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/10/john-finnis-on-the-moral-status-of-the-unborn-child.html#tp) on the Mirror of Justice blog, refers to the remarks of John Finnis at the recent Princeton conference. Here is a link to Finnis’s remarks, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/10/1849 , which are well worth reading. Richard M.