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UFL Life and Learning Conference XVI – 2006

Preface 

 

The Right To Life In Domestic And International Law

Does International Law Protect the Unborn Child?   Patrick J. Flood

Originalism, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution: A Constitutional Right to Life?   Lee J. Strang

The (Surprising) Truth about Schiavo: A Defeat for the Cause of Autonomy  O. Carter Snead

Two Approaches for Fighting Roe v. Wade   Samuel W. Calhoun

Conforming to the Rule of Law: Person and Human Being in 14 th Amendment Jurisprudence   Charles I. Lugosi

 

Philosophical Perspectives

Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of David Boonin’s A Defense of Abortion    Francis J. Beckwith

A Defense of the Deprivation Argument   Patrick Tully

The Embryo as a Human Person   Kevin O’Rourke, O.P.

Health versus Harm: Euthanasia and Physicians’ Duties   Jorge Garcia

 

Liberalism And Natural Law Theory : Rival Traditions

The Natural Law and Human Dignity: Reaffirming Ethical First Things   J. Daryl Charles

George Parkin Grant on the Unthought Ontology of Abortion: Bringing the “Poisoned Cup to the Lips of Liberalism”   Roberta Bayer

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

 

Life Issues And Culture

Institutional Conscience and Catholic Health Care Grattan T. Brown

Margaret Sanger’s Multifaceted Defense of Abortion and Infanticide   Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Legacy of Ignorance: Abortion and Journalism in the Early Republic  Ralph Frasca

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

 

Valuing Life In Different Stages And Conditions

Eugenic Logic: Eliminating the Disabled  John J. Conley, S.J.

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

  

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.

The Effects of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion during the 1990s   Michael J. New

How Should Catholics Vote? Bringing Moral Principles to Life  Stephen J. Heaney

 

Pro-Life Academics In A Pro-Choice Academy

“God’s Will and Our Own”  Samuel Calhoun

“Pro-Life Challenges in an Academic Environment”   Jane Gilroy

“Seventeen Years of an English Professor’s Pro-life Activism in the Academy.”  Jeff Koloze

“A Pro-Life Professor of Nursing at a Catholic, Jesuit Institution of Higher Learning.”  Richard J. Fehring

 

 

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