Author Archives: P. Langdale Hough

Senate Rejects Health Care Amendment on Abortion

The Washington Post: Senate Rejects Health Care Amendment on Abortion
United States Senate: Roll Call

New on Abortion, Health Care, and Catholic Political Discourse

NRO: Eye on the Catholic Left – Michael New

Dannenfelser : The Abortion Administration

The Weekly Standard: The Abortion Administration – Marjorie Dannenfelser

Barnard: The Embryo Troubles of Obama’s Top Doctor

Prof. Justin Barnard (associate professor of philosophy and director of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee) reflects on Public Discourse on the fact that many are pointing to Obama’s pick of an Evangelical to head the National Institutes of Health as a sign of the president’s willingness [...]

Professor Douglas Kmiec picked for Ambassador to Malta

LegalTimes Blog: Kmiec Chosen for Ambassador to Malta

Obama Administration Calls for Universal Access to Abortion at UN Meeting

C-FAM: Obama Administration Calls for Universal Access to Abortion at UN Meeting

Joyce Appleby, Catholic Conscience, and the Supreme Court

Matthew J. Franck
In a week that included the murderous attack of a crazed anti-Semite at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and the reported complaints of President Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright that “them Jews” in the White House won’t let him talk to the president, it took a distinguished historian of early America to round [...]

Abortion “key” to Administration’s foreign policy

In a speech delivered at Planned Parenthood’s annual Federation of America Awards gala, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: “I want to assure you that reproductive rights… will be a key to the foreign policy of this Administration.”

May 28: C-Span Live Stream of Robert George and Douglas Kmiec Exchange

C-SPAN will be covering the moderated discussion between Professor Robert P. George (Princeton University) and Professor Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School) to take place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The discussion with focus on “The Obama Administration and the Sanctity of Human Life: Is There a Common Ground on Life Issues? What [...]

A Test of Seriousness

Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement, President Obama said that he wanted to embrace “common ground” on abortion. Most pro-lifers will greet that assertion with considerable skepticism. Measured by substantive positions, rather than graduation rhetoric, Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion president in our [...]