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LIfe and Learning XIX — 2009

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CURRENT MORAL PROBLEMS

Stem Cells and Torture  Gilbert Meilaender

Lying for Life? On Delayed Disclosure of Healthcare Limits  Andrew Jaspers

More Vulnerable to Exploitation and Abandonment   Richard Stith

Right to Life: A Right Beyond Ideology, The Case of Tabaré Vazquez  Mario Ramos-Reyes

 

MORAL ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Is Breastfeeding the Moral Equivalent of Emergency Contraception in Inducing Early Pregnancy Loss?   Richard J. Fehring

Professional Conscientious Objection in Medicine with Attention to Referral   T.A. Cavanaugh

Unintended Consequences of the Separation of Sex from Procreation  Hanna Klaus, M.D.   

The Orientation of Freedom toward Bodily Integrity: Defending the Oocyte from Extracorporeal Manipulation  Kimberly Henkel

 

PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Pro-Life Communitarianism and a Metaphysics of Relation  James G. Hanink 

Fichte’s Idealism and Natural Rights: A Key to Understanding Seemingly Inconsistent Arguments for Abortion and Euthanasia   Eric Manchester 

The Difference Between Form and Shape: Why Human Appearance Is Morally Irrelevant  Craig Payne 

Retrieval of Fatherhood through a Retrieval of Faith in God the Father  Matthew Lewis Sutton

 

PERSPECTIVES FROM LITERATURE AND RHETORIC

Abortion in Canadian Literature: Comparisons with American Literature and Canada’s Unique Contributions  Jeff Koloze

Pak Wans4’s “The Dreaming Incubator”: An Application of Western Literary Theories to a Major Work of Korean Fiction  Jeff Koloze

The Coercive Reality behind Pro-Choice Rhetoric: Identifying What “Popular Sovereignty,” “Reproductive Freedom,” and “Death with Dignity” Demand from Those Who Disagree   Ryan C. MacPherson

 

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Catholic Feminist Ethics and the Culture of Death: The Case of Sister Margaret Farley   Anne Barbeau Gardiner

“For contributions to the science of racial cleansing”: Harry H Laughlin and the American Eugenics Movement   John Gerdtz

Euthanasia: Hell’s Last Sacrament   Robert C. Cetrulo, J.D.

The “Heated Debates” Survey: How Connecting Issues Have an Impact on Opposition to Violence   Rachel M. MacNair 

Prudence and Telos in Pro-Life Evolution   James R. Kelly

 


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