UFL Life and Learning Conference XVII

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Title Page
Preface IX-XI
Acknowledgements IX
Bioethics & Medical Ethics
Bioethics, the Christian Citizen, and the Pluralist Game

Francis Beckwith

3
The Doubling Undone? Double Effect in Recent Medical Ethics

J. L. A. Garcia

17
 
Legal Perspectives
 
Surveying the Foundations of Medical Law: A Reassessment of Glanville Williams's The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law

John Keown and David Jones

43
Response to Professors Keown and Jones

William L. Saunders, Jr.

94
The Supreme Court and Abortion:
The Implications of Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)

Richard S. Myers

103
Gonzales v. Carhart: Abortion Law that
Looks Like Family Law

Helen M. Alvare

129
Contradictory Approaches to "Standing" in Federal Courts for the Unborn and for Animal Species

C. Bermeo Newcombe

171
 
Culture of Life
 
Deep Ecology and the Culture of Death

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

179
Denying the Ill Effects of Abortion

Marcella Colbert

191
A Metaphysics of Love and Embodiment:
Abortion as the Retroactive Destruction of the Spousal Act

Maria Fedoryka

203
Freedom and the Dignity of the Poor:
Against the Alien Abortion Agenda in Uganda

Jeffrey R. Adams and Karen K. Adams

213
 
The Personhood Question
 
Construction, Development, and Revelopment

Richard Stith

243
Natural Kinds, Persons, and Abortion

Laura Garcia

257
Personhood, the Soul, and Non-Conscious Human Beings: Some Critical Reflections on Recent Forms of Argumentation within the Pro-Life Movement

Peter J. Colosi

277
 
Stem Cell Research
 
The Good News of Adult Stem Cell Research: Working Towards the Common Good

John F. Morris

307
Altered Nuclear Transfer and the Status of the Human Person (for table #2 noted in the text - click here)

Dolors J. Meehan

325
The Moral Status of the Oocyte

Kimberly Zenarolla

353
Altered Nuclear Reprogramming and Efficient Causality

E. Christian Brugger

369
 
Questions in Medicine and Nursing
 
Should Advanced Practice Nurses Perform Abortions? Debate in the Profession

Carolyn A Laabs

503
The Influence of Religiosity on Contraceptive Use and Abortion in the United States

Richard J. Fehring and Jennifer Ohlendorf

399
 
Religious Liberty Questions
 
With Liberty and Justice for All? A National Perspective on the Escalating Threats to Religious Liberty Directed at Limiting the Impact of Church Ministries
and the Pro-Life Movement

Marie T. Hilliard

417
The Conscience of the Pharmacist

John J. Conley, S.J.

431
 
Theological Perspectives
 
Reading the Signs of Death: A Theological Analysis

Grattan T. Brown

441
Death, Life and the "God" Question

Gregory J. Coulter

455
Liberal Societies and the Foundations of Human Dignity: The Dramatic Nature of Human Action

David L. Schindler, Sr

469
The Human Embryo: The Person and the Gift

Brian V. Johnstone, C.SS.R.

489
 
Literary Perspectives
 
Emile Zola: Improbable Defender of Life

Mary Shivanandan

509
Abortion and Emily Dickinson: Sex, Religion and Romanticism in the Marriage Group Poems

Bernadette Waterman Ward

529
Abortion in Modern Arabic Literature

Jeff Koloze

545
 
Political Perspectives
 
Winds of Change: Do Bush's Recent Supreme Court Appointees Mean the End of FACE?

Mattei Radu

563
California's Proposition 85: Was It Pro-Life Suicide?

Damian P. Fedoryka

601
Missouri 2006: A Perfect Storm - Post-Mortem on the Missouri Stem Cell and Cures Initiative

Christopher Anadale and Albert Bruecken, O.S.B.

601
We're All Traditionalists Now: The Priority of Praxis to Theoria for the Culture War

Thaddeus J. Kozinski

635
 
Political Philosophy
 
John Locke and the Heart of Modern Gnosticism

Mark Shiffman

649
Abortion, Prudence, and Solidarity

James G. Hanink

655
Abortion and Evil

Roberta Bayer

669
 
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