Life and Learning XIII - 2003 - Table of Contents

 

 

Introduction

 

 

Legal Questions

 

Reflections on “Looking Back on Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Richard S. Myers                                                                 3

 

A New Assault on Conscience

John J. Conley, S.J.                                                            21

 

 

Perspectives from Psychology and Social Science

 

Abortion and Family Formation: Circumstance or Culture?

D. Paul Sullins                                                                  31

 

Hijacking Healing: Pro-Abortion Response to Post-Abortion Stress

Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy                                                       57

 

Post-Abortion Aftermath: Treatment or Care?

Marcella Colbert                                                                75

 

 

Perspectives from Art and Literature

 

The Interrelated Defense of Abortion and Pornography

in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Anne Barbeau Gardiner                                                      87

 

Abortion and Rap Music: A Literary Study of the Lyrics of Representative Rap Songs

Jeff Koloze                                                                      103

 

 

 

 


Theological Perspectives

 

An Analysis of the Majority Report (“Responsible

Parenthood”) and its Recommendations on Abortion,

Sterilization, and Contraception

Richard J. Fehring                                                           121

 

“To Be as God”:  Scriptural Links between Abortion and Natural Family Planning

William S. Kurz, S.J.                                                         147

 

 

Philosophical Perspectives

 

Making the Best Argument for Unborn Life: Understanding the Racist and Sexist Assumptions of Abortion

Ben Voth                                                                         173

 

Pro-Choice “Personhood”: An Abortive Concept

Andrew J. Peach                                                              187

 

Is the Fetus a Fetish?

Bernadette Waterman Ward                                               211

 

Thirty Years of Roe. v. Wade

Wanda Franz                                                                   223

 

 

About Our Contributors                                                           239

 

UFL Boards                                                                                243