Targeting Downs Syndrome by Regulation
Attorney Mark Leach has a great new blog post on new regulations based on the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations and their impact on unborn children with Down’s Syndrome. His fear is that the prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases will be used to pressure mothers to abort their down syndrome babies. He notes that public comments […]
Video of GOP candidates on abortion and constitutional change
If readers want to view each of the GOP presidential candidates respond to Professor Robert George’s question regarding abortion at the Palmetto Freedom Forum, you can find those exchanges on YouTube. Bachmann-George exchange at 5:27-8:18. Cain-George exchange at 6:28-8:56. Gingrich-George exchange at 7:46-9:15 very short answer then discussion of judicial role in Constitution. Paul-George exchange […]
Personhood and the Presidential Debates
UFL Member Michael New has a short post, Abortion and the 14th Amendment, over at NRO. He describes GOP presidential candidates’ responses to the question of whether they would support legislation, under Section Five of the 14th Amendment that would restore legal protection for unborn children. Professor New notes that only Mitt Romney failed to […]
An article on the “personhood movement”
Here is a link to an article in The New Republic entitled–“A Radical New Ploy to Destroy Roe v. Wade–Which Just Might Work.” It is the article that occasioned the blog debate on personhood that Teresa addressed in her earlier post on this blog. The article focuses on the “personhood movement” with particular attention to a personhood […]