That is the title of an excellent essay by Mitchell Rocklin and Howard Slugh addressing the arguments of pro-choice advocates who contend that pro-life laws violate the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
Author: Richard Myers
Richard S. Myers, the Vice-President of UFL, is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, and Religious Freedom. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College and earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school's highest academic prize. He began his legal career by clerking for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Myers also worked for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. He taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law before joining the Ave Maria faculty. He is a co-editor of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition: Contemporary Perspectives (Catholic University of American Press, 2004) and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has also published extensively on constitutional law in law reviews and also testified before Congressional and state legislative hearings on life issues.
Married to Mollie Murphy, who is also on the faculty at Ave Maria School of Law, they are the proud parents of six children - Michael, Patrick, Clare, Kathleen, Matthew, and Andrew. http://www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=faculty.bio&pid=11705E7D4E0111010366
Here is a link to today’s decision from the US Supreme Court. The Court upheld the constitutionality of Indiana’s law requiring the humane disposal of fetal remains. The court declined to review another provision of Indiana law prohibiting abortions due to the race, sex, or disability of the unborn child. The Court explained that the Seventh Circuit (which […]
Here is a link to a discussion at the Heritage Foundation addressing ethical options for providing care for the terminally ill. The participants were Ryan Anderson, Farr Curlin, Kevin Donovan, and Robert Moffitt. Here are some of the key points: Eliminating suffering by eliminating those who suffer is not a new temptation. That is why […]
That’s the title of a LifeNews.com article discussing the Supreme Court’s decision in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt (May 13, 2019). In Hyatt, the Court overruled Nevada v. Hall, a Supreme Court decision from 1979. Nevada v. Hall decided that states were not immune from suit in the state courts of other states. In Franchise Tax […]
Here is a link to an excellent article by Elizabeth Kirk on the recent abortion decision from the Kansas Supreme Court. Kirk states: “In the wake of this decision and in the political context of abortion, the only remedy left to the people of Kansas is to pass a constitutional amendment to declare that there is no […]
On Tuesday May 7, 2019, Georgia’s Governor, Brian Kemp, signed a law banning abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. Here is LifeNews.com story with the details about the new law–“The Living Infants Fairness and Equality Law.”
HHS Issues Final Conscience Rule
Here is a link to the HHS news release concerning the final conscience rule protecting the rights of health care entities and individuals
The Winter 2019 issue of ProVita, the newsletter of University Faculty for Life, is now available at this link. Thanks to Margaret Hughes for her editorial work on the newsletter. Among other things, the newsletter contains information about the upcoming University Faculty for Life conference on June 6-7, 2019 at Mundelein Seminary near Chicago.
Here is a link to an opinion by the Kansas Supreme Court recognizing a right to abortion under the state Constitution. The Court struck down the Kansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act, which was passed in 2015. This is an important ruling because the opinion means that the right to abortion would still be protected […]
Here is a link to a story on Scotusblog about the cert petition that was filed today (April 17, 2019) in the Louisiana admitting privileges case. The case is June Medical Services v. Gee. In 2016, the Supreme Court invalidated a Texas law that requires that abortionists have admitting privileges at local hospitals. In June Medical Services, […]