UFL Life and Learning Conference XXV

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Preface
Contributors

 

MAKING SOUND AND PERSUASIVE ARGUMENTS
Doubt as a Basis for Persuasion on the Abortion Question
M.T. Lu
Overcoming the Imaginative Barrier to Embryonic Personhood
Richard Stith
LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
Why the Right to Elective Abortion Fails Casey’s Own Interest-Balancing Methodology and Why It Matters
Stephen G. Gilles
Restricting Abortions at Eight Weeks is Consistent with Legal Principles of Roe v. Wade
Michael J. Degnan
THE HHS MANDATE
PPACA (Obamacare) and Abortion
Lynn D. Wardle
The HHS Mandate: A Question of Religious Freedom or the Life Issues?
Peter J. Colosi
THE EUTHANASIA QUESTION
Countering Some Popular Arguments for Euthanasia
Catherine Jack Deavel
Addressing the Issues of Abortion and Euthanasia in the Fundamentals of Nursing: Utilizing the Theory of Moral Distress
Elizabeth Sutton
Compassion, Assisted Suicide, and the Problem of Suffering
R. Mary Hayden Lemmons
LITERARY AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Suicide, Shakespeare and Sloth
Bernadette Waterman Ward
“Historical Re-enactments: A Key Pro-life Argument”
Charles Bellinger
Abortion Distortion: Correcting Literary Criticism’s Misreading of Early Twentieth-Century Abortion Fiction
Jeff Koloze
The Authentic Identity of Motherhood: Edith Stein and Surrogacy
John T. Goerke
Evangelical and Catholic Vampire Hunters Together
David Deavel