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On January 29, 2018, the Senate, by a vote of  51-46, failed to invoke cloture and thus prevented a vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks. Here and here are news items about the Senate’s action.

Here is a link to an interesting article in The Atlantic.

There have been numerous critiques of the infamous article by Giubilini & Minerva on “after-birth abortion.” Chris Kaczor has been a forceful critic of the original article. J. Rasanen wrote a ctique of Kaczor’s work and Chris has now published a response in Bioethics. Here is a link to Chris Kaczor’s article entitled “A dubious defense […]

Today is the 45th anniversary of the Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. Here is a link to my article entitled “Re-Reading Roe v. Wade,” which was presented at Washington & Lee Law School at a 2013 conference organized by Sam Calhoun.

Here and here are stories from LifeNews and National Right to Life News about the Administration’s creation of “The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” within HHS. The new Division will focus on enforcing existing conscience protections in federal law.

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 […]

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 […]