Here is a good article by Alexandra DeSanctis on the new New Jersey law protecting access to abortion. The article makes it clear that if the Supreme Court overrules Roe and Casey the battle over abortion will switch to the states. And states such as New Jersey have moved to aggressively protect access to abortion. […]
Here is a link to a story in Bloomberg about the latest developments in the Texas Hearbeat case. The US Supreme Court, which refused a request to enjoin the law pending the challenges to the constitutionality of the statute, suggested that Texas licensing authorities might be proper defendants in the suits challenging the constitutionality of […]
Here is a link to the latest issue of Pro Vita, the University Faculty for Life (UFL) newsletter. The Fall 2021 issue includes a touching letter from Mary Lemmons, UFL President, columns from Chris Kaczor and Richard Myers, and information about UFL’s upcoming annual conference, which will be held at Notre Dame on June 10-11, […]
Here is a link to a good post by Teresa Collett addressing “The Religious Question and Abortion.” Collett addresses the line of questioning during the recent oral arguments in the Dobbs case by Justice Sotomayor who suggested that opposition to abortion is necessarily based on religion. I have addressed this issue in this article. Sotomayor’s […]
Here is link to a report on Scotusblog discussing the State of Arizona’s effort to enforce its law prohibiting abortions when the sole reason for the abortion is the genetic abnormality of the unborn child. The law was enjoined by a lower court. Arizona filed a emergency motion with the United States Supreme Court asking […]
Here is a link to a story in National Review about this morning’s decisions from the Supreme Court in the cases dealing with challenges to the Texas Heartbeat law. The Court allowed the challenges by abortion providers to continue as to certain defendants but allowed the law to remain in effect. Here is a link […]
Yesterday (December 1, 2021), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs involves the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, which prohibits most abortions after 15 weeks. Dobbs affords the Court yet another opportunity to jettison Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Most observers thought […]
Here is a link to a short item in the National Right to Life News mentioning that the Anscombe Bioethics Centre has recently released three papers on euthanasia. The papers are by David Albert Jones, John Keown, and Mark Komrad. All three are of high quality and are strongly recommended. Jones’s paper is entitled “Defining […]
Here is a link to a short item from Ed Whelan about the oral arguments in the Texas Heartbeat case. Whelan links to other articles discussing the arguments, including two long posts by Stephen Sachs. UPDATE: Here is a link to another piece by Whelan. The more recent piece also includes a link to a […]
Here is a link to a good essay in Public Discourse by Daniel Lipinski. He discusses the Women’s Health Protection Act, which was recently passed by the House. Lipinski explains that this radical, pro-abortion bill may come back to haunt the Democratic Party. Here is his concluding paragraph: “As the Democratic Party moves further into […]