University Faculty for LifeRobert Gotcher is a dogmatic and moral theologian and long-time member of UFL who received his Ph.D. from Marquette University. He and his wife, Kathy, are raising their seven children in Franklin, Wisconsin.
In the past couple of years there has been a debate among Republicans about how strong the party’s official opposition to abortion should be. Some Republicans do not oppose legal abortions. Others are strongly pro-life. Others fall somewhere in between. Some have suggested recently that the GOP should downplay its pro-life plank in order to […]
One of the highlights of the January March for Life is the UFL co-sponsored Cardinal O’Connor Conference. This year the student-run conference will be on Monday, January 20. “The Cardinal O’Connor Conference was founded by Georgetown students in January 2000 and renamed after the death of His Eminence, John Cardinal O’Connor, the late Archbishop of […]
For those of you who are involved in on-campus pro-life groups and pro-life work, Feminists for Life is currently producing a series of videos aimed at encouraging college students to make pro-life personal choices. One recent video features Melissa Ohden, who was the “product of an unsuccessful abortion attempt.” Other videos in the series are […]
I will be working on the January edition of the ProVita newsletter for UFL. If you have any of the following to contribute, please e-mail them to [email protected]. Recent scholarly activities of UFL members. News about UFL members. Scholarly resources pro-life scholars might use. Upcoming conferences, seminars, events, calls for papers. Thanks.
Good news from the EU. According to the National Catholic Register, the EU Parliament has rejected a report that proposed that EU define abortion as a human right. The parliament accepted alternative reports that reaffirmed that decisions about abortion and sex education belong to the individual member nations
Recently journalist Linda Greenhouse’s criticized for-profit companies seeking to be exempt from the HHS contraceptive mandate in a guest opinion column in the New York Times called “Doesn’t East, Doesn’t Pray and Doesn’t Love.” In response, Donna Harrison, MD, Executive Director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, writes “Emergency Contraception Can Cause […]
It was trendy for a while to picture Pope Francis as “soft” on social issues that other popes were “hardliners” about, such as abortion. In his new Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis makes his most authoritative statement on abortion. Let’s let him speak for himself: 213. Among the vulnerable for whom the Church wishes to […]
For us lay people who might be easily misled by journalists’ claims about scientific studies, here is some advice from Dr. Alex B. Berezow of the RealClearScience web page, “20 Tips for Analyzing Claims of a Scientific Study.” It is a summary of a Nature article by William J. Sutherland, David Spiegelhalter and Mark A. Burgman called “Twenty […]
Here is an article from the National Catholic Register about Students for Life America’s Planned Parenthood Project, a campaign where they disseminated information about PP on their campus to raise awareness of the real intentions, tactics, and affect of PP. You may have seen them on your campus. The reactions, both positive and negative, are […]
Peter Colosi, UFL member and a professor of philosophy and moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, has been actively involved in the development of an ethics boot camp for medical students sponsored by the Catholic Medical Association. Here is a video highlighting the first one, held this summer.