Category Archives: Mission
Senate Rejects Health Care Amendment on Abortion
The Washington Post: Senate Rejects Health Care Amendment on Abortion
United States Senate: Roll Call
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 [...]
Robert P. George on the NIH Embryonic Stem Cell Research Guidelines
By Robert P. George, Princeton University
Yuval Levin points out that the NIH guidelines for implementing President Obama’s deeply regrettable policy of funding research using stem cell lines created by killing human embryos include a “tiny silver lining.” Obama’s recent executive order rescinding President Bush’s August 9, 2001 executive order on the subject opened the door [...]
An Open Letter to President Obama’s Pro-Life Supporters
Friends:
We share with you a commitment to the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family. It is for this reason that we oppose abortion, embryo-destructive research, euthanasia, and every other form of direct killing of innocent human beings. We believe that these practices are grave injustices that no society should [...]
Arkes – Kmiec Debate Available Online
The Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University has posted the video recordings of the Cicero Podium Debate between Professor Hadley Arkes (Amherst College) and Professor Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School). This event took place on February 13, 2009, and was a session of the conference “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Legacy of [...]
David Gushee: “Mr. President, we need more than lip service”
USA Today: “Mr. President, we need more than lip service” – David Gushee
“Centrist evangelicals like me embraced Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to help bridge the gaps of the culture wars. Instead, the president’s short record on abortion-related issues is familiar- and disappointing – rather than revolutionary.”
Prominent evangelical David Gushee, distinguished university professor of Christian Ethics [...]
Now We Know with Certainty: Obama Supports Human Cloning for Embryo-Destructive Research
During the presidential campaign, self-identified pro-life supporters of Barack Obama claimed that despite differences between Obama and John McCain on abortion, the two candidates had the same position on embryonic stem cell research. The truth is, though, that they did not. Although McCain supported efforts to lift Bush administration funding limitations for research [...]
The Legal Consequences of the Freedom of Choice Act
Michael Stokes Paulsen, The University of St. Thomas School of Law
Commonweal has recently published a column by Professor Cathy Kaveny of the University of Notre Dame Law School, “Bad Law: What FOCA Is – and Isn’t.” FOCA is the acronym for “The Freedom of Choice Act,” a piece of proposed federal legislation that President Obama [...]
Moral Accountability: An Open Letter
In the course of the 2008 presidential campaign, a small group of Catholic and Evangelical Protestant intellectuals and activists, while saying that they personally support legal protection for the unborn and oppose the redefinition of marriage, promoted the candidacy of Barack Obama, who made no secret of his intention to eliminate the entire range of [...]