Here is a link to a very good article by Tim Bradley on a Colorado ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide. Bradley states: “[The Colorado measure and other such proposals] should be strongly opposed for many reasons: they extend false mercy and compassion to those who are vulnerable to seeking assisted suicide, they corrupt the […]
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NY Times article on NRLC
Here is a link to an article in the July 9, 2016 edition of the New York Times. The article, “Anti-Abortion Group Presses Ahead Despite Recent Supreme Court Ruling,” reports on the annual meeting of the National Right to Life Committee. Here is the first paragraph of the article–“Stung by the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Texas abortion clinic restrictions, […]
Here is a link to an excellent analysis of the Whole Woman’s Health case by Steve Gilles. casetext.com/posts/justice-kennedys-disastrous-defection-and-its-likely-limits
Here is a link to a blog post by Dr. Peter Saunders reporting on this positive development. http://pjsaunders.blogspot.com/2016/06/bma-rejects-attempt-to-push-it-neutral.html This news from England comes at the same time as the American Medical Association’s unfortunate decision to approve a resolution to study the question of assisted suicide. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/american-medical-association-approves-resolution-to-study-assisted-suicide Richard M.
Students at Harvard University Law School have organized into Law Students for Life. Their first event was a talk by Robert George on the humanity and personhood of the embryo. The discussion was respectful, displaying a diversity of opinions. This, the willingness to engage a difficult and controversial subject or at least to engage an uncomfortable […]
Here is a link to a book review by Michael New. New is reviewing a recent book by Daniel Williams entitled “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade.” A link to the book is below. The Ideological Diversity of the Pro-Life Movement
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good news from Minnesota
Here is an article from the National Right to Life News reporting the good news that a bill to legalize assisted suicide has been withdrawn. The article reports: “More than two hours of public testimony on S.F. 1880 included 17 physicians, nurses, attorneys, and members of the disability community who warned of the grave dangers […]
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“Girls Just Want to be Born”
That’s the title of a good essay by Marie Smith on sex-selection abortion. Girls Just Want to Be Born
Here, from LifeNews and National Right to Life News, are reports on yesterday’s oral argument in the Texas abortion case. Supreme Court Holds Hearing on Texas Law Saving Tens of Thousands of Babies From Abortion http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/03/behind-the-scenes-as-the-supreme-court-hears-first-abortion-case-since-2007/#.Vth69UnSnIU
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Review of 2015 symposium
The Human Life Review recently posted a symposium reviewing the pro-life movement in 2015. Among the contributors are: Eric Metaxus, Kristan Hawkins, Hadley Arkes, William McGurn, Clarke Forsythe, Rita Marker, Tim Goeglein & Doug Napier, William Murchison, Mary Meehan, Wesley Smith, and Helen Alvaré,