Category Archives: Web Briefing
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
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 [...]
Robert P. George and Douglas Kmiec: Is Obama Anti-Cloning?
In the aftermath of President Obama’s executive order on funding embryonic stem-cell research, Robert P. George (Princeton University) and Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine Law School) corresponded via email regarding President Obama’s position on human cloning and Kmiec’s statements on this position in an interview with Dan Gilgoff. This exchange has been reproduced in 5 parts by [...]
Web Briefing: Obama and Embryonic Stem Cells
Weekly Standard: Perpetuating a Needless Stem Cell War – Ryan Anderson
Wall Street Journal: The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research – Robert P. George and Eric Cohen
NRO: Obama’s False Choice – Yuval Levin
Web Briefing: Sebelius, Abortion, and the HHS
American’s United for Life: The Case Against Sebelius – Clarke D. Forsythe and Denise M. Burke
First Things: The Sebelius Challenge – George Weigel