Here is an opinion piece by Arina Grossu explaining why pro-lifers should support the confirmation of Judge Gorsuch.
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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
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New issue of ProVita is available
Here is a link to the latest version of ProVita, the newsletter of University Faculty for Life. This is the first newsletter edited by Dr. Margaret Hughes. Margaret teaches philosophy at the College of Mount St. Vincent. Her contact information is here. Margaret is taking over for Robert Gotcher, who served for many years as our previous newsletter editor. […]
Here is a link to a LifeNews story on Wendy Savage’s defense of sex-selection abortions. Her views, expressed in an interview with the Daily Mail, were condemned by many. MP Mark Field stated: “Suggesting that women should be able to abort babies solely because they happen to be either male or, much more usually, female, […]
Here is a link to National Right to Life News story about a decision by a federal judge enjoining a Mississippi law requiring that doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The judge relied on Whole Womans Health v. Hellerstedt, the 2016 Supreme Court decision invalidating a similar Texas law.
Here is a link to a very good essay by Tim Bradley. The essay is timely as we approach the confirmation hearings for Judge Gorsuch. Bradley discusses Gorsuch’s book on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia and concludes with this assessment: “Gorsuch’s analysis of the (lack of) limits of the broad definition of protected liberty advanced in […]
Here is a link to a LifeNews story discussing Americans United for Life’s support for the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court.
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assisted suicide in Montana
Here is a story in the National Right to Life News about assisted suicide in Montana. Assisted suicide is technically prohibited in Montana but a decision by the Montana Supreme Court in 2009 held that a doctor who assisted in the death of a terminally ill, mentally competent patient would be immune from a homicide […]
Here is a link blog post by Alex Schadenberg on this very troubling development in Germany. Schadenberg explains that this decision opens the door to the legalization of assisted suicide. Here is his conclusion: “It is very sad how we forget our history and once again give legal power to allow one person to be […]
Here is a link to a blog post by Wesley Smith discussing a recent interview with Peter Singer. In the interview, Singer repeats his controversial views that intellectually disabled human beings are less valuable than certain animals. Any other view, Singer states, is to engage in speciesism, that is, to prefer humans over other species. […]
Here is a story from LifeNews.com about recent developments in Washington, D.C. The DC City Council passed the law legalizing assisted suicide in 2016. Congress had an opportunity to prevent the law from going into effect but failed to do so. DC joins Oregon, Washington, Vermont, California, and Colorado as jurisdictions where laws explicitly authorize assisted […]