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UFL Life and Learning Conference XVII – 2007

Preface  
Acknowledgements

Bioethics & Medical Ethics

Bioethics, the Christian Citizen, and the Pluralist Game
Francis Beckwith

The Doubling Undone? Double Effect in Recent Medical Ethics
J. L. A. Garcia

 

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

Response to Professors Keown and Jones   William L. Saunders, Jr.

The Supreme Court and Abortion: The Implications of Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)   Richard S. Myers

Gonzales v. Carhart: Abortion Law that Looks Like Family Law  Helen M. Alvare

Contradictory Approaches to “Standing” in Federal Courts for the Unborn and for Animal Species  C. Bermeo Newcombe

 

Culture of Life

Deep Ecology and the Culture of Death   Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Denying the Ill Effects of Abortion  Marcella Colbert

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

Freedom and the Dignity of the Poor: Against the Alien Abortion Agenda in Uganda   Jeffrey R. Adams and Karen K. Adams

 

The Personhood Question

Construction, Development, and Revelopment   Richard Stith

Natural Kinds, Persons, and Abortion   Laura Garcia

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

 

Stem Cell Research

The Good News of Adult Stem Cell Research: Working Towards the Common Good   John F. Morris

Altered Nuclear Transfer and the Status of the Human Person (for table #2 noted in the text – click here)    Dolors J. Meehan

The Moral Status of the Oocyte   Kimberly Zenarolla

Altered Nuclear Reprogramming and Efficient Causality   E. Christian Brugger

 

Questions in Medicine and Nursing

Should Advanced Practice Nurses Perform Abortions? Debate in the Profession    Carolyn A Laabs

The Influence of Religiosity on Contraceptive Use and Abortion in the United States    Richard J. Fehring and Jennifer Ohlendorf

 

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

The Conscience of the Pharmacist   John J. Conley, S.J.

 

Theological Perspectives

Reading the Signs of Death: A Theological Analysis   Grattan T. Brown

Death, Life and the “God” Question   Gregory J. Coulter

Liberal Societies and the Foundations of Human Dignity: The Dramatic Nature of Human Action   David L. Schindler, Sr

The Human Embryo: The Person and the Gift   Brian V. Johnstone, C.SS.R.

 

Literary Perspectives

Emile Zola: Improbable Defender of Life   Mary Shivanandan

Abortion and Emily Dickinson: Sex, Religion and Romanticism in the Marriage Group Poems   Bernadette Waterman Ward

Abortion in Modern Arabic Literature   Jeff Koloze

 

Political Perspectives

Winds of Change: Do Bush’s Recent Supreme Court Appointees Mean the End of FACE?    Mattei Radu

California’s Proposition 85: Was It Pro-Life Suicide?    Damian P. Fedoryka

Missouri 2006: A Perfect Storm – Post-Mortem on the Missouri Stem Cell and Cures Initiative    Christopher Anadale and Albert Bruecken, O.S.B.

We’re All Traditionalists Now: The Priority of Praxis to Theoria for the Culture War    Thaddeus J. Kozinski

 

Political Philosophy

John Locke and the Heart of Modern Gnosticism   Mark Shiffman

Abortion, Prudence, and Solidarity   James G. Hanink

Abortion and Evil   Roberta Bayer

 

 

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