Life and Learning VIII – 1998
I. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
- Life’s Dominion in Canada: A Legal Survey
David M. Brown - The Problematic Moral Arguments in the Sue Rodriguez Case
Gilbert E. Brodie - Abortion and the Crisis of Liberal Justice: George Grant on the Meaning of Roe v. Wade
William Mathie - Is Abortion an International Human Right?
Winston L. Frost
II. SUPREME COURT FOCUS
- The Supreme Court and Abortion: Legal Logic and Legal Fictions
D. J. Dooley - Deconstructing Roe v. Wade’s Birth Wall: Opportunities and Dangers
Richard Stith - Roe v. Wade: Effects of Twenty-Five Years of Constitutionalized Abortion on Demand
Lynn D. Wardle - Breakfasting with Champions
Robert G. Morrison
III. THE RIGHT-TO-LIFE MOVEMENT
- Abortion: A Failure to Communicate
Paul Swope - Abortion, Self-Love, and Virtue: On the Work of the Caring Foundation
Michael Pakaluk - Prenatal Care: Hope, Concern, and Contradictions
Mary A. Nicholas, M.D.
IV. LITERARY AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
- Resolution of a Controversial Issue in the Writing Class: Daedalus Software, Discussion, and Collaborative Writing on Abortion
Jeff Koloze - Abortion as Metaphor
John J. Conley, S.J. - Abortion as a Sacrament: Mimetic Desire and Sacrifice in Sexual Politics
Bernadette Waterman Ward
V. PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
- Suicide Is Not a Private Choice
David Novak - A Prolegomenon to Any Future Ethics of Abortion
John C. Calahan - The Life Principles: A Model for Teaching the Philosophy of the Pro-Life Movement
Robert J. Spitzer, S.J. - College Outreach Program
Feminists for Life - The Role of Mercy in a Culture of Life: John Paul II on Capital Punishment
Kevin E. Miller - Is the Early Embryo a Person?
W. Jerome Bracken, C.P.
VI. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
- Mercy Killing: History and Medicine
L. L. de Veber, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C) - Perfecting Humankind: A Comparison of Progressive and Nazi Views on Eugenics, Sterilization, and Abortion
John Hunt - Euthanasia: Politics and the Law
Iain T. Benson