The pro-life and pro-family causes suffered a great loss earlier this week with the untimely passing of Richard Wilkins. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865567647/BYU-law-professor-well-known-Utah-stage-actor-Richard-Wilkins-passes-away-at-59.html He will be sorely missed. Professor Wilkins was a featured speaker at UFL’s 2005 conference. Here is a link to his paper from that conference. http://www.uffl.org/vol15/wilkins05.pdf Richard M.
The Thomistic Institute NYC will be hosting a conference in April called “Advancing a Culture of Life: Pro-Life Argument in the Coming Generation” Catholic Center, New York University April 5-6, 2013 This conference is free and open to the public. Tentative Schedule: Friday April 5: 1:00 pm: David Novak (University of Toronto) Respondent: Rusty Reno (First Things) […]
Homiletics and Pastoral Review recently published an article of mine called “The Catholic Identity of a Retirement Community” Because of the Catholic incorporation of natural law thinking, much of it is applicable or translatable in non-Catholic settings, and it certainly bears on the pro-life message about the ethical treatment of the elderly.
Encouraging Hispanic immigration is a double-edged sword for the GOP: It may increase GOP votes in the short run, but it may increase Democratic voters in the long run. And, frankly, it is hard to imagine any bid the GOP could make on immigration or almost any other Latino issue that the Dems could not […]
Categories
Reprohealthlaw
Teresa Collett mentioned that the REPROHEALTHLAW-L listserv of the Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme has been replaced by the reprohealthlaw blog. It appears to be updated once a month with substantial posts on court decisions, resources, news, fellowships and jobs, mostly from a pro-abortion perspective. You may not want a job as the Executive Director […]
Mo Yan, who is to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, has been a strong critic of China’s one child policy. Jeff Koloze wrote a careful analysis of “Explosions,” one of her short stories. “This paper reviews demographic considerations of abortion and the one-child policy in the People’s Republic of China which form the basis for […]
Categories
Yamanaka Nobel Prize
Two researches, John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan, who pioneered the production of stem cells used for treatments out of adult cells have won the Nobel Prize (BBC.com). Yamanaka was motivated by ethical concerns over embryonic stem cell research. He was once quoted as saying, “When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized […]
Categories
Blogs for life
I would like to highlight blogs in this issue of ProVitae. If any members write or contribute to a blog, or if you know of a blog that expecially helps us in our pro-life scholarship, please let me know. My e-mail address is available in the most recent issue of ProVita, found here.
Categories
October 2012 ProVita Newsletter
I starting to put together the next issue of ProVita. If anyone has anything to contribute, please e-mail me. My e-mail address is listed in the previous issues, which can be found here. What are we looking for? News about UFL. News about UFL members and their scholarly and pro-life activities. Calls for papers and announcements […]
Here is a link to a story in the National Right to Life News about a British women who was sentenced for aborting her own child in the last week of pregnancy. http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2012/09/british-woman-sentenced-to-eight-years-for-aborting-her-child-in-last-week-of-pregnancy/ In the US, the Ninth Circuit (on September 11, 2012) held unconstitutional an Idaho law prohibiting self-abortion. Here is commentary from Walter Weber. […]