Life and learning XVII  proceedings of the seventeenth University Faculty for Life conference at Villanova University, 2007 
 Life and learning 17  Life and learning seventeen 
edited by Joseph W. Koterski. 
 - Washington, D.C.  University Faculty for Life  c2008. 
 - xiv, 698 p.  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Bioethics and medical ethics --  Bioethics, the Christian citizen, and the pluralist game  doubling undone? Double effect in recent medical ethics  Legal perspectives --  Surveying the foundations of medical law: a reassessment of Glanville Williams's The sanctity of life and the criminal law  legacy of Glanville Williams in contemporary bioethics debates: response to professors Keown and Jones  Supreme Court and abortion: the implications of Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)  Gonzales v. Carhart: abortion law that looks like family law  Contradictory approaches to "standing" in federal courts for the unborn and for animal species  culture of life and the culture of death --  Deep ecology and the culture of death  Denying the ill effects of abortion  metaphysics of love and embodiment: abortion as the retroactive destruction of the spousal act  Freedom and the dignity of the poor: against the alien abortion agenda in Uganda  personhood question --  Construction, development, and revelopment  Natural kinds, persons, and abortion  Personhood, the soul, and non-conscious human beings: some critical reflections on recent forms of argumentation within the pro-life movement  Stem cell research --  good news of adult stem cell research: working towards the common good  Altered nuclear transfer and the status of the human person  moral status of the oocyte  Altered nuclear reprogramming and efficient causality  Questions in medicine and nursing --  Should advanced practice nurses perform abortions? Debate in the profession  influence of religiosity on contraceptive use and abortion in the United States  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  conscience of the pharmacist  Theological perspectives --  Reading the signs of death: a theological analysis  Death, life and the "God" question  Liberal societies and the foundations of human dignity: the dramatic nature of human action  human embryo: the person and the gift  Literary perspectives --  Emile Zola: Improbable defender of life  Abortion and Emily Dickinson: sex, religion and romanticism in the marriage group poems  Abortion in modern Arabic literature  Political perspectives --  Winds of change: Do Bush's recent Supreme Court appointees mean the end of FACE?  California's proposition 85: was it pro-life suicide?  Missouri 2006: a perfect storm - post mortem on the Missouri stem cell and cures initiative  We're all traditionalists now: the priority of Praxis to Theoria for the culture war  Political philosophy --  John Locke and the heart of modern gnosticism  Abortion, prudence, and solidarity  Abortion and evil  Francis Beckwith --  J. L. A. Garcia --  John Keown and David Jones --  William L. Saunders, Jr. --  Richard S. Myers --  Helen M. Alvaré --  C. Bermeo Newcombe --  Anne Barbeau Gardiner --  Marcella Colbert --  Maria Fedoryka --  Jeffrey R. Adams and Karen K. Adams --  Richard Stith --  Laura Garcia --  Peter J. Colosi --  John F. Morris --  Dolores J. Meehan --  Kimberly Zenarolla --  E. Christian Brugger --  Carolyn A. Laabs --  Richard J. Fehring and Jennifer Ohlendorf --  Marie T. Hilliard --  John J. Conley, S.J. --  Grattan T. Brown --  Gregory J. Coulter --  David L. Schindler, Sr. --  Brian V. Johnstone, C. SS. R. --  Mary Shivanandan --  Bernadette Waterman Ward --  Jeff Koloze --  Mattei Radu --  Damian P. Fedoryka --  Christopher Anadale and Albert Bruecken, O.S.B. --  Thaddeus J. Kozinski --  Mark Shiffman --  James G. Hanink --  Roberta Bayer.  The  The  The  The  A  The  The  The  The  The  The 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects.--Congresses.<br/>Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.--Congresses.<br/>Pro-life movement--United States.--Congresses.<br/>Pro-life movement--Congresses.<br/>Abortion--Religious aspects.--Congresses.