Here is a link to a story in the National Right to Life News about a recent decision holding Florida’s 24-hour waiting period for an abortion unconstitutional. Waiting periods have typically been upheld by the courts. This ruling is based on Florida’s Constitution, which in contrast to the US Constitution provides explicit protection for privacy […]
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 a recent federal court of appeals decision striking down a Baltimore City ordinance requiring crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion. A case from the Ninth Circuit upheld a similar California statute and that case is now before the US Supreme Court. Here is a comment from […]
Here is a link to a LifeNews story about this welcome development from Ohio.
Here is a link to a LifeNews story reporting on a recent decision from a federal judge in Pennsylvania enjoining the Trump Administration’s expanded exemption to the HHS mandate. The new exemption would have protected the Little Sisters of the Poor and others with religious and moral exemptions to providing coverage for “contraceptives,” some of […]
Here is a link to a good essay in Public Discourse by Arthur Goldberg on assisted suicide in the US and Canada. In the essay, he discusses a congressional resolution that has been introduced expressing opposition to assisted suicide. Here is his concluding paragraph: “Because secular humanism is attempting to replace G-d as the final moral […]
Here is a link to the fall 2017 issue of ProVita, the newsletter of University Faculty for Life. Many thanks to Margaret Hughes for her great work in editing the newsletter!!!
Here is a report in the National Right to Life News about the Australian state of Victoria’s legalization of assisted suicide. Previous legalization efforts in other Australian states have failed. The vast majority of legalization efforts in the US have failed too. There is certainly not an inexorable move in favor of legalization but the passage of this […]
Here is an article from LifeNews about Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision to appeal the decision by a federal district court judge holding Texas’s ban Ion dismemberment abortions unconstitutional. Paxton stated: “No just society should tolerate the tearing of living human beings to pieces.” Paxton added that the law is constitutional, “treats the unborn with dignity and respect […]
Here is a story from LifeNews about this encouraging development. The Ohio Senate has now passed this bill; the Ohio House has already passed a similar bill.
Here is a story from LifeNews about this continuing saga. The Trump Administration announced that it would end the HHS Mandate. Now, California and Pennsylvania have filed lawsuits seeking to take away the exemptions for the Little Sisters of the Poor and others. Here is information from Becket, which is representing the Sisters.