University Faculty for Life

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 […]

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 […]