Here is a link to a LifeNews.com story discussing the legalization of assisted suicide in New Jersey. On April 12, 2019, New Jersey Governor Murphy signed a law legalizing assisted suicide. New Jersey is now the 7th state with such a law. New Jersey joins California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. Assisted suicide is also legal […]
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 a LifeNews story about the latest developments in Ohio. On April 11, 2019, Governor DeWine signed legislation banning abortion after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable. The law will likely be struck down under Roe and Casey but pro-lifers are hopeful that the current Supreme Court will be more receptive to pro-life legislation.
Here is a link to an opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upholding the constitutionality of Kentucky’s “Ultrasound Informed Consent Act.” The opinion was issued on April 4, 2019; the vote was 2-1 in favor of the law. The Kentucky law requires a doctor who is preparing to perform an […]
Here is a link to a story in the National Right to Life News on good news from Arkansas. Governor Asa Hutchison signed a law banning abortions due to a Down syndrome diagnosis. Arkansas is the seventh state to ban abortions for this reason. Indiana has asked the US Supreme Court to review a federal court of […]
Here and here are stories from LifeNews and the National Right to Life News about this development in Kentucky. On March 19, 2019, Governor Matt Bevin signed the law banning abortions if a reason for the abortion is the sex, race, or disability of the unborn baby. This law is similar to the Indiana law that […]
Here is a short note by Ed Whelan describing today’s decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Planned Parenthood v. Hodges. By a vote of 11-6, the court upheld the constitutionality of Ohio’s law prohibiting state funding of organizations (such as Planned Parenthood) that perform abortions.
Here is a link to a good column by Richard Doerflinger on the connections between abortion and infanticide, and the proposed Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Here is his conclusion: “But now a “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” would simply implement what Congress said in 2002: Because the child surviving an abortion is a person, […]
Here is a link to a very good article by David Smolin (Cumberland Law). The article is entitled “Aborting Reason and Equality: A Religious Pro-Life Critique of Roe, Casey, and Abortion Rights Rhetoric.” Here is a paragraph from his introduction: “Thus, religion’s role in regard to abortion is primarily that of calling society to apply […]
Here is a link to a National Right to Life News story about a recent decision by a federal judge in Missouri refusing to enjoin Missouri’s admitting privileges law.
Here is a link to a good essay by Stefano Gennarini on the implications of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. He concludes that reversing Roe “would also deal a severe–and perhaps even fatal–blow to the campaign for an international right to abortion.”