UFL Life and Learning Conference XVI

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Title Page
Preface IX
The Right To Life In Domestic And International Law
Does International Law Protect the Unborn Child?

Patrick J. Flood

3
Originalism, the Declaration of Independence, and
the Constitution: A Constitutional Right to Life?

Lee J. Strang

 43
The (Surprising) Truth about Schiavo: A Defeat for the
Cause of Autonomy

O. Carter Snead

 71
Two Approaches for Fighting Roe v. Wade

Samuel W. Calhoun

97
Conforming to the Rule of Law: Person and Human Being
in 14 th Amendment Jurisprudence

Charles I. Lugosi

105
 
Philosophical Perspectives
 
Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of
David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion

Francis J. Beckwith

 225
A Defense of the Deprivation Argument

Patrick Tully

 259
The Embryo as a Human Person

Kevin O'Rourke, O.P.

281
Health versus Harm: Euthanasia and Physicians' Duties

Jorge Garcia

297
 
Liberalism And Natural Law Theory : Rival Traditions
 
The Natural Law and Human Dignity:
Reaffirming Ethical First Things

J. Daryl Charles

 321
George Parkin Grant on the Unthought Ontology of Abortion:
Bringing the "Poisoned Cup to the Lips of Liberalism"

Roberta Bayer

 371
Locke on Bodily Rights and the Immorality of Abortion:
A Neglected Liberal Perspective

Eric Manchester

 383
 
Life Issues And Culture
 
Institutional Conscience and Catholic Health Care

Grattan T. Brown

 413
Margaret Sanger's Multifaceted Defense of Abortion
and Infanticide

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

 423
Legacy of Ignorance: Abortion and Journalism
in the Early Republic

Ralph Frasca

 439
Cinematic Treatment of Abortion: Alfie (1965) and
The Cider House Rules (1999)

Jeff Koloze

 463
 
Valuing Life In Different Stages And Conditions
 
Eugenic Logic: Eliminating the Disabled

John J. Conley, S.J.

481
Disability and Euthanasia: The Case of Helen Keller
and the Bollinger Baby

John Gerdtz

 491
 
Abortion And American Politics
 
Casey versus Santorum: The Politics of the 2006
Senatorial Race in Pennsylvania: What's a Pro-Lifer to Do?

William J. Parente, Sr.

 503
The Effects of State Legislation on the Incidence
of Abortion during the 1990s

Michael J. New

513
How Should Catholics Vote?
Bringing Moral Principles to Life

Stephen J. Heaney

 537
 
Pro-Life Academics In A Pro-Choice Academy
 
"God's Will and Our Own"

Samuel Calhoun

 575
"Pro-Life Challenges in an Academic Environment"

Jane Gilroy

 580
"Seventeen Years of an English Professor's Pro-life Activism in the Academy."

Jeff Koloze

 585
"A Pro-Life Professor of Nursing at a Catholic, Jesuit Institution of Higher Learning."

Richard J. Fehring

 589
 
End Material
 
About Our Contributors 595
UFL Boards 603
Acknowledgments 605