Here is a link to a report on Scotusblog about the Court’s grant of cert in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole. The Court will address two provisions of a Texas statute: a requirement that the doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their office and that abortion facilities meet the […]
Francis Beckwith’s new book, Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith will soon be released by Cambridge University Press. Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in […]
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I am working on the next issue of ProVita Online. If you have any of the following items to contribute, e-mail me at [email protected]. Here are some of the things I’m looking for: Activities of members (publications, conferences, talks, committees, etc.) Scholarly opportunities, such as upcoming conferences, calls, for papers, seminars, talks, etc. Online resources for pro […]
Governor Brown signed the new California law legalizing assisted suicide. See Michael Cook’s column. http://www.mercatornet.com/careful/view/go-west-old-man-go-west/16963 Since the 1997 Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill rejecting constitutional challenges to laws banning assisted suicide, proponents of the “right to die” have had only modest success in advancing their agenda. This development in California […]
UFL board member Lynn Wardle has written an article for CNSNews.com called “Disintegration of Sexual and Marital Morality Is Having a Detrimental Impact on Society.” Wardle highlights the detrimental effect Roe v. Wade has had on U.S. culture. He also discusses the possibility that the U.S. can reverse the trend.
Here is a neat interview about philosophy in America magazine with UFL board member Fr. Joe Koterski, SJ. “Catholic Philosophy Today: 11 Questions for Joseph Koterski, S.J.“
Michael Foley and UFL member Frank Beckwith appeared on KCEN television to discuss the significance of the pope’s visit to the United States. Click here to access the video. There are several videos of the interview.
At the 2013 Life and Learning Conference in San Francisco there was a presentation by Nyna Pais Caputi about a film she and her husband were producing about female infanticide and other abuses of women in India. The film has now been released. You can find out more about it at the Petals in the […]
Monica Migliorino Miller writes in Crisis, “Were Planned Parenthood Videos Produced Unethically,” a defense of David Daleiden against the accusation that the deception he and his team engaged in to gain the videos of Planned Parentood was immoral because it was lying, which is always wrong.
I ran across this quote on the BBC web page about Catholicism: Research and publications from the Alan Guttmacher Institute in America illustrate some contradictions in the Catholic stance against abortion. The evidence is as follows: Catholic women in the United States are as likely as women in the general population to have an abortion, […]