The Winter/Spring issue of ProVita, the newsletter of University Faculty for Life, is available here. Thanks again to Margaret Hughes for her editorial work!!!
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Here is a link to an article in National Review by Michael New and Donna Harrison critiquing a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the safety of abortion. Here is the conclusion: “Supporters of legal abortion have often argued that abortion procedures pose few health risks to women, but they […]
Here is a link to Richard Doerflinger’s latest column. The column in entitled “Food for Thought: The Push to Starve Helpless Seniors.” Here is his conclusion: “The U.S. assisted-suicide movement has ridiculed slippery-slope arguments, saying we will never follow the Netherlands in approving assisted suicide for people who only have dementia. It seems we are […]
Here is a link to an article by Dave Andrusko from the National Right to Life News commenting on a recent essay in the New England Journal of Medicine. The essay, by Paul Appelbaum and Franklin Miller, is entitled “Physician-Assisted Death for Psychiatric Patients–Misguided Public Policy.”
Here are two excellent articles on the March 20 oral arguments before the US Supreme Court in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra. This is the case involving the constitutionality of a California statute that imposes speech restrictions on crisis pregnancy centers. Here is a link to a National Review article by Mark Rienzi, and here is […]
Here is a link to David Lejeune’s open letter to Ruth Marcus. On March 9, 2018, Marcus published an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “I would’ve aborted a fetus with Down syndrome. Women need that right.” Lejeune’s open letter responds to her op-ed. David Lejeune, who is the president of the Jerome Lejeune Foundation USA, writes: “you […]
Here is a link to a LifeNews story on a decision by a federal judge granting a temporary restraining order preventing the enforcement of a new Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks.
The US Supreme court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday March 20, 2018 in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra. The case involves the constitutionality of a California law that requires pregnancy care centers to “advertise” the availability of free or low-cost abortions. Here is a link to a good essay by Andrew […]
Here is a link to LifeNews.com story on a March 14, 2018 decision by a federal judge in Ohio enjoining Ohio’s law banning abortions of unborn babies with Down syndrome. The case, Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes, indicates how extreme the US law is on abortion. The Ohio federal judge interpreted the Supreme Court’s cases (Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. […]
Here is a link to a recent (March 5, 2018) article in the Washington Post entitled “Babies with Down syndrome are put on center stage in the U.S. abortion fight.” And here is a link to a comment by Dave Andrusko in the National Right to Life News on the Post article. Andrusko notes that this discussion […]