LIFE AND LEARNING IX: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH UNIVERSITY FACULTY FOR LIFE CONFERENCE, JUNE 1999 AT TRINITY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, DEERFIELD, ILL.

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Acknowledgments -- Editor's preface -- Current issues -- Human cloning: never and why not / J.L.A. Garcia -- Abortion risk factors: an avenue for new pro-life/pro-woman laws / David C. Reardon -- The value of life and its bearing on three issues of medical ethics / Peter F. Ryan -- Ending renal dialysis: ethical issues in refusing life-sustaining treatment / Kevin E. Miller - - Fundamental moral theory -- Why persons have dignity / John F. Crosby -- Against capital punishment: a teleological argument / John J. Conley -- The right to life and the natural law / Mitchell Kalpakgian -- Is in vitro fertilization in accord with a symbolic concept of natural law? / W. Jerome Bracken -- Legal and political perspectives -- Abortion: what did the Supreme Court do in Roe v. Wade? / Charles E. Rice -- Membership: reflections on abortion and immigration / Michael Scaperlanda -- Disagreement without debate: the Republican Party platform and the human life amendment plank / Francis J. Beckwith -- The critical influence of the prospective father on abortion-decision making / Thomas W. Strahan -- Discrimination against pro-lifers in higher education? A Preliminary Survey / Edward F. Gehringer -- Hamlet and human rights: is the choice to be or not to be protected under international law? / Winston L. Frost -- Historical perspectives - - Interpreting the pro-life movement: recurrent themes and recent trends / Keith Cassidy -- Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. and the physicians' crusade against abortion / Frederick N. Dyer -- Out of respect for life: Nazi abortion policy in the eastern occupied territories / John Hunt -- The empty promise of contraception / Teresa R. Wagner -- Medical perspectives -- An Argument for continuing a pregnancy where the fetus is discovered to be anencephalic / Bridget Campion -- Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR): the psychology of desperation and the ethics of justification / Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy -- Literary perspectives - - Adolescent fiction on abortion: developing a paradigm and pedagogic responses from literature spanning three decades / Jeff Koloze -- Writing a play about virtue: the way to evolution valley / Bernadette Waterman Ward -- About our contributors