UFL Life and Learning Conference XVII – 2007
Bioethics & Medical Ethics
Bioethics, the Christian Citizen, and the Pluralist Game
Francis Beckwith
The Doubling Undone? Double Effect in Recent Medical Ethics
J. L. A. Garcia
Legal Perspectives
Surveying the Foundations of Medical Law: A Reassessment of Glanville Williams’s The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law John Keown and David Jones
Response to Professors Keown and Jones William L. Saunders, Jr.
The Supreme Court and Abortion: The Implications of Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) Richard S. Myers
Gonzales v. Carhart: Abortion Law that Looks Like Family Law Helen M. Alvare
Contradictory Approaches to “Standing” in Federal Courts for the Unborn and for Animal Species C. Bermeo Newcombe
Culture of Life
Deep Ecology and the Culture of Death Anne Barbeau Gardiner
Denying the Ill Effects of Abortion Marcella Colbert
A Metaphysics of Love and Embodiment: Abortion as the Retroactive Destruction of the Spousal Act Maria Fedoryka
Freedom and the Dignity of the Poor: Against the Alien Abortion Agenda in Uganda Jeffrey R. Adams and Karen K. Adams
The Personhood Question
Construction, Development, and Revelopment Richard Stith
Natural Kinds, Persons, and Abortion Laura Garcia
Personhood, the Soul, and Non-Conscious Human Beings: Some Critical Reflections on Recent Forms of Argumentation within the Pro-Life Movement Peter J. Colosi
Stem Cell Research
The Good News of Adult Stem Cell Research: Working Towards the Common Good John F. Morris
Altered Nuclear Transfer and the Status of the Human Person (for table #2 noted in the text – click here) Dolors J. Meehan
The Moral Status of the Oocyte Kimberly Zenarolla
Altered Nuclear Reprogramming and Efficient Causality E. Christian Brugger
Questions in Medicine and Nursing
Should Advanced Practice Nurses Perform Abortions? Debate in the Profession Carolyn A Laabs
The Influence of Religiosity on Contraceptive Use and Abortion in the United States Richard J. Fehring and Jennifer Ohlendorf
Religious Liberty Questions
The Conscience of the Pharmacist John J. Conley, S.J.
Theological Perspectives
Reading the Signs of Death: A Theological Analysis Grattan T. Brown
Death, Life and the “God” Question Gregory J. Coulter
Liberal Societies and the Foundations of Human Dignity: The Dramatic Nature of Human Action David L. Schindler, Sr
The Human Embryo: The Person and the Gift Brian V. Johnstone, C.SS.R.
Literary Perspectives
Emile Zola: Improbable Defender of Life Mary Shivanandan
Abortion and Emily Dickinson: Sex, Religion and Romanticism in the Marriage Group Poems Bernadette Waterman Ward
Abortion in Modern Arabic Literature Jeff Koloze
Political Perspectives
Winds of Change: Do Bush’s Recent Supreme Court Appointees Mean the End of FACE? Mattei Radu
California’s Proposition 85: Was It Pro-Life Suicide? Damian P. Fedoryka
Missouri 2006: A Perfect Storm – Post-Mortem on the Missouri Stem Cell and Cures Initiative Christopher Anadale and Albert Bruecken, O.S.B.
We’re All Traditionalists Now: The Priority of Praxis to Theoria for the Culture War Thaddeus J. Kozinski
Political Philosophy
John Locke and the Heart of Modern Gnosticism Mark Shiffman
Abortion, Prudence, and Solidarity James G. Hanink
Abortion and Evil Roberta Bayer