Category Archives: Policy Briefing
Senate Rejects Health Care Amendment on Abortion
The Washington Post: Senate Rejects Health Care Amendment on Abortion
United States Senate: Roll Call
Moral Accountability in South Bend
Matthew J. Franck, Radford University
The genesis of MoralAccountability.com, as you can see from our mission statement, lay in the disturbing phenomenon, in the 2008 presidential campaign, of self-proclaimed “pro-life” Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, and others declaring their support for the candidacy of Barack Obama. The signers of that statement set forth as one of our goals [...]
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 [...]
Policy Briefing: Conscience Protection of Medical Personnel
By Michael Fragoso, Center for Human Life and Bioethics of the Family Research Council
On December 18th, 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services promulgated regulations on the conscience rights of healthcare professionals. While the regulations themselves are new, conscience protection of medical personnel at the federal level dates back to the time of [...]
Vatican Official Criticizes Obama’s Reversal of Mexico City Policy
Breitbart.com (AP): Vatican Official Criticizes Obama’s Reversal of Mexico City Policy
A Vatican official on January 26, 2009, criticized President Obama for overturning a ban on state funding for family-planning groups that carry out or facilitate abortions overseas.
Policy Briefing: Mexico City
The Mexico City Policy (called by pro-abortion activists and the national press the “Global Gag Rule”) conditions any receipt of funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by overseas non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on their agreement neither to perform nor to “actively promote” abortion as a means of family planning. The policy was [...]