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Preface   Joseph W. Koterski, S.J

PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Toward a Universally Engaging Pro-Life Rhetoric  Robert J. Spitzer, S.J. 

The Bible and Bioethics: From Timeless Truths to Timely Applications  Ryan C. MacPherson

PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES

Having a Rational Nature as the Basis for Being a Subject of Rights   Patrick Lee 

Is Speciesism Like Racism and Sexism?  M. T. Lu

Are Brains Needed for Fetal Subjectivity?   Nathan Metzger 

Medical Ethics and the Externalization of Agency   Heidi Giebel

LITERARY PERSPECTIVES

Crimes of Inaction: Death by Neglect in George Eliot’s Novels   Bernadette Waterman Ward 

Right-to-Life Issues in Contemporary Bioethics Fiction    Jeff Koloze


LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

The Boundaries of Identity: Will Justice Neil Gorsuch Vote “Pro-Life” on Abortion Issues?   Lynn D. Wardle

Overruling Roe v. Wade: The Implications for Women and the Law  Paul Benjamin Linton  

A Catholic Contribution to the Right to Life: An Analysis of Abortion Jurisprudence in the United States and Poland    Rachana Chhin

 

SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES

Influence of Current Contraceptive Use on the Abortion and Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States    Richard J. Fehring, Ph.D., R.N., Thomas Bouchard, M.D., and Maria Meyers, M.D.   

The Brain-Dead Body Is Alive, One, and Human: A Response to Maureen Condic and Other Proponents of Brain Death   Michel Accad, M.D 

“Brain Death” Is a Mendacity   Paul A. Byrne, M.D

Understanding the Apnea Test: Procedure with a Predetermined Purpose  Christine M. Zainer, M.D. and Paul A. Byrne, M.D.   

Men’s Mental Health and Abortion: A Review of the Research    Catherine T. Coyle and Vincent M. Rue

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