LIFE AND LEARNING XII: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH UNIVERSITY FACULTY FOR LIFE CONFERENCE AT AVE MARIA LAW SCHOOL 2002

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Introduction -- Sect. 1. Social and political questions -- "Respect for the individual: the foundation of law" / Richard Stith -- "Wrong turn: how the campaign to liberate women has betrayed the culture of life" / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- "Cloning and reproductive liberty" / Francis J. Beckwith -- "The median voter principle and advancing the culture of life" / John Pisciotta -- "A defense of the neglected rhetorical strategy (NRS)" / David C. Reardon -- Sect. 2. Neo-natal questions -- "The moral dilemma of management procedures for ectopic pregnancy" / Kelly Bowring -- "Fetal pain legislation: is it viable?" / Teresa Stanton Collett -- Sect. 3. Philosophical perspectives -- "Delayed animation: an ambiguity and its abuses" / John J. Conley, S.J. -- "I was once a fetus: that is why abortion is wrong" / Alexander R. Pruss -- Sect. 4. The life issues and the academy -- "Duhemian and augustinian science and the crisis in non-empirical knowledge" / J.P. Moreland - "Academic perceptions of abortion: a review of humanities scholarship produced within the academy" / Jeff Koloze -- Sect. 5. Questions of theology and spirituality -- "Catholic appropriation of biblical perspectives regarding abortion" / William S. Kurz, S.J. -- "Spiritual responses to the regulation of birth: a historical comparison" / Richard J. Fehring and Elizabeth McGraw -- "We are a people of life: opportunities and challenges for the pro-life parish" / Patricia F. Sherrod -- "Thoughts towards a clarification of section #73 of Humanae Vitae" / Damian P. Fedoryka -- "The sanctity of fertility and coition and its impact on contraception, abortion, and the new birth technologies" / Mark Lowery -- "The influence of therapeutic culture on abortion decisions of the U.S. Supreme court" / Thomas W. Strahan -- About our contributors -- UFL board of directors and board of advisors