Life and Learning XXVIII

Preface — Joseph W. Koterski, S.J

LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

A Draft Opinion Overruling Roe v. Wade  Clarke D. Forsythe

The Constitutionality of Laws Banning Sex-Selection Abortion  Richard S. Myers

Educating “Statesmen in Full”: Lessons from Thomas More, Patron of Statesmen   Gerard Wegemer

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Making Death Easier Makes Life Harder  Richard Stith

How to Forge a Pro-Life Culture in the Face of Elite Resistance  Christopher Wolfe

Unalienable: A Pro-life, American Concept  Christopher James Wolfe

Life and Love: The Mission of Personalist Feminism in Combating the Culture of Death   R. Mary Hayden Lemmons

LITERARY PERSPECTIVES

Latino Literature on the Life Issues: Commentary on Tato Laviera’s “Jesús Papote,” Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “Silent Dancing,” and Bella    Jeff Koloze 

Right-to-Life Issues in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature   Jeff Koloze

The Crack in the Door   Bernadette Waterman Ward

PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

New Challenges to Humanae vitae: Conscience and Discernment    Janet E. Smith

Medicine’s Interest in Abortion     William A. Frank

If the Fetus is a Part of the Mother, then Three Popular Abortion Defenses Fail on Purely Conceptual Grounds     David B. Hershenov