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Bioethics and 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 -- The legacy of Glanville Williams in contemporary bioethics debates: 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. Alvaré -- Contradictory approaches to "standing" in federal courts for the unborn and for animal species C. Bermeo Newcombe -- The culture of life and the culture of death -- 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 Dolores 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.