How “Happy Holidays” Hurts
Not directly pro-life, this post is relevant to the issue of how points of view are excluded from the public square for quite unfounded reasons: Good people are often mystified at the offense taken by many Christians to the salutation “Happy Holidays!” After all, they reason, the word “holidays” includes everyone, instead of excluding anyone, […]
Ohio Right to Life updated legislative fact sheet
History and legal students and scholars may find an updated legislative fact sheet from Ohio RTL helpful in their research. Stephanie Krider, Director of Legislative Affairs for Ohio RTL, has compiled a brochure on Ohio laws concerning the life issues. Please call or email her for a copy of “Facts of Life—Ohio Laws REVISED”: skrider@ohiolife.org […]
update on end of life counseling regulations
The Obama Administration has shelved the end of life counseling regulations. Here are links to Wesley Smith’s commentary. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/01/05/medicare-end-of-life-counseling-now-to-be-removed-from-regulations/ http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/01/05/end-of-life-care-counseling-whiplash-part-2/ Richard M.
increasing challenges to Roe v. Wade
Here is a link (below) to a Washington Post story about the increasing number of laws that states have passed restricting abortion. The article focuses on Nebraska’s law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy to prevent fetal pain. The article notes that the US Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which […]
Obamacare and death panels
There has been a lot of discussion about a new federal regulation that allegedly will bring death panels into federal health care. Wesley Smith has several good posts on the controversy. He concludes that the death panel charge is an overreaction but that health care rationing is still a “clear and present danger.” Here are links […]
Review of Cornwell’s book on Newman
Anne Barbeau Gardiner’s review of John Cornwell’s Newman’s Unquiet Grave (Continuum, 2010) is now available. Please email me for the full text.
Transfer of copyright agreements
A colleague has been asked to submit a paper to the US-China Education Review. A stipulation of the editor is that a “transfer of copyright agreement” should accompany the article. If anyone has experience with such agreements, please contact me at JeffKolozePhD@sbcglobal.net; I will forward your comments as appropriate.
selective reduction
Here is a link to a recent story in the Canadian press about the increase in selective reductions. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/When+twins+many/3960709/story.html The article focuses on an Ontario couple. The wife was pregnant with twins but she found a doctor who was willing to “reduce” the pregnancy “from twins to a singleton.” As the article described this trend: “The […]
update on Phoenix abortion case
Here is link to my post on the Mirror of Justice blog that describes the developments. http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2010/12/recent-developments-in-the-phoenix-abortion-case.html After a review, Bishop Olmsted concluded that St. Joseph Hospital could no longer identify itself as a Catholic hospital. Richard M.
update on conscience rights and the Washington board of pharmacy
Back in August, see http://uffl.org/blog/?p=104, it appeared that the Washington Board of Pharmacy might alter its rules and protect conscience rights. But as LifeNews reports, http://www.lifenews.com/2010/12/20/state-5753/ , the Washington Board of Pharmacy has voted (5-1) to keep its rules, which fail to protect pharmacists with a conscientious objection to dispensing plan B, in place. Richard M.