While physicians may have legitimate questions about the new state abortion laws, the organized campaign to attack them as banning sound medical judgment is a disservice to physicians and patients alike.
Author: Richard M. Doerflinger (Richard M. Doerflinger)
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Women, Witches, and Abortion: A Misguided Attack on Justice Alito
A Minnesota law professor’s attack on the draft Dobbs opinion seems based more on desperation than scholarship. This and other misguided efforts to demonize critics of Roe need to be refuted so we can focus our attention on the real issue of the ugly realities of abortion.
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Giving One’s Life for One’s Friends: A Secular or Religious Value?
The self-sacrificing love of friends has a religious origin, even if it has secular expressions. Precisely by putting us in touch with the sacred, with a perception of reality that transcends our day-to-day existence, such values give human life its meaning and make our “secular” civilization possible. Attempts to censor expressions of these values show how difficult it can be to disentangle their religious and secular uses.
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Assisted Suicide: The Ethics, the Laws, and the Dangers
The people most harmed by this agenda are seriously ill people hearing from society and physicians that death by overdose will end their problems; other patients suffering from a reduced commitment to care; people with disabilities who are next in line to be seen as a “burden” on others; and lonely and depressed people of any age, seduced by the message that suicide is a positive solution. Adapted from a lecture delivered in June 2019 at the Vita Institute, an educational program for pro-life leaders sponsored by the University of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.
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New York Courts Rule Against “Aid in Dying” and Warn of Its Dangers
The New York Court of Appeals has dealt a resounding blow to the state’s assisted suicide lobby.
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A Life Well Spent: Learning from John Noonan
With the recent passing of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Americans would do well to honor and remember his example of respectful engagement over fundamental moral issues.
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Don’t Let Assisted Suicide Come to the Nation’s Capital
DC’s assisted suicide bill is the most expansive and dangerous our country has yet seen.
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A Pledge Betrayed: The Obama Administration Nullifies Conscience Rights
The Obama administration not only enforces but unilaterally expands some civil rights laws, such as when “sex” became “gender identity” in Title IX. Yet it promotes exceptions, loopholes, and countervailing arguments for other civil rights protections, such as conscience rights for those who oppose abortion.
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Flirting with Death
Did New Jersey’s Assembly approve an assisted suicide bill without understanding it? The bill is bad public policy, shot through with dangerous loopholes and contradictions that threaten to push many vulnerable citizens of New Jersey toward death.
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The HHS Mandate, Unborn Life, and the Professionals: A Cog in the Political Machine
It’s time to realize that ACOG’s priority is not medical fact but thwarting protection for the unborn.
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On Abortion Rates: Good News and Cause for Reflection
American abortion rates are falling significantly. Although the Guttmacher Institute tries to hide the chief causes of this trend, cutting through the spin reveals that pro-life laws and attitudes help reduce the abortion rate and the abortion ratio.
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Conscientious Abortions? We Don’t Need New Laws Protecting Abortionists
A recent argument that abortion providers deserve the same legal protection as pro-life medical providers is philosophically flawed and ignores legal and popular consensus on the evil of abortion.
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Is Conscience Partisan? A Look at the Clinton, Moynihan, and Kennedy Records
When did respect for conscience rights, once a bipartisan consensus, become a “Republican war on women”?