LIfe and Learning XVIII – 2008
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Preface
BIOETHICS
Engaging the Whole Breadth of Reason: Catholic Bioethics in the University and in the Post-Secular World Edmund D. Pellegrino.
QUESTIONS OF CONSCIENCE AND LAW
Rights of Conscience vs. Peer-Driven Medical Ethics: ACOG and Abortion Lynn D. Wardle
Assessing the Legal Bases for Conscientious Objection in Healthcare Richard S. Myers
“Partial-Birth Abortion” Is Not Abortion: Carhart II’s Fundamental Misapplication of Roe Samuel W. Calhoun
Constitutional Personhood of the Unborn Child Robert C. Cetrulo
POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Natural Law Liberalism: A Framework for Promoting the Sanctity of Human Life Christopher Wolfe
Epiphanies and Humanae Vitae Janet E. Smith
Garrett Hardin and James Rachels: Gurus of a Post-Human Age Anne Barbeau Gardiner
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Personal Identity and the Genome Project John J. Conley, S.J.
Would Aquinas Change His Mind on Hominization Today? Craig Payne
Jacques Maritain and the Embryo: A Master’s Muddles James G. Hanink
RHETORICAL AND LITERARY PERSPECTIVES
Invective, Irony, Sarcasm and Other Negative Tropes in Pro-life Rhetoric Robert F. Gotcher
Death Scenes in Literature from the Nineteenth Century to Current Fiction Jeff Koloze
Life is Beautiful: The Theological Aesthetic Argument for Life Matthew Lewis Sutton