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March 2025

March 12, 2025

Religious Freedom and Abortion

Since the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...

July 2024

July 07, 2024

Walker Percy’s 1981 NY Times Op-Ed on Abortion

While working on the revised edition of my 2007 book, Defending Life, I came across...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

Religious Freedom Institute report: Religious Pro-Life Americans Under Attack

You can find the report here. The abstract states: A range of dangerous actors...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

Rick Garnett: Anti-Catholic Attacks After Dobbs

University of Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett has just published a piece over at First...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

Forthcoming chapter: “Violinists, Burglars, People-Seeds, Samaritans, and Reluctant Bone Marrow Donors: Why Do We Need Analogies to Pregnancy in Order to Understand It?”

In late July (2022), Routledge Publishing will be releasing the anthology of original essays: Agency, Pregnancy,...

December 2020

December 13, 2020

Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020)

MIT philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson died on November 20, 2020 at the age of 91....

August 2015

August 10, 2015

Serious work on abortion by female prolife scholars

In my previous post, I listed and linked to six books author by prolife authors,...

August 03, 2015

Why do prolifers believe that pre-born human beings are one of us?: Some resources

Given the recent discussions about Planned Parenthood's alleged selling of fetal parts and organs, and...

August 02, 2015

Important article on understanding fetal tissue research by Biola’s Scott B. Rae

With all the attention on the Planned Parenthood videos produced by the Center for Medical...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

My NRO Interview – “Abortion and Human Equality: How to return the debate to the essential questions 41 years after Roe.”

That's the title of Kathryn Jean Lopez's interview of me in today's National Review Online....

August 2013

August 09, 2013

Interview with Catholic News Service: Natural Law and the New Evangelization

During my time in Rome in June, I was interviewed by the Catholic News Service....

January 2013

January 30, 2013

How Wide is the Human Community?: Why Roe v. Wade Was Wrongly Decided

That is the title of a talk I am giving tomorrow at 7 pm in...

January 24, 2013

Evangelicals and Abortion in the 20th Century: A Hidden History?

I recently came across a post by one of my fellow Patheos bloggers, Fred Clark....

January 18, 2013

My Two Part Series on Roe v. Wade, and an extensive critique of Roe

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (22 January 2013), this month I have...

January 18, 2013

Roe at Forty, part 2: The Court’s Two Unwarranted Stipulations

Two weeks ago, I published over at The Catholic Thing part 1 of my two...

January 04, 2013

Roe at Forty, part 1: The Court’s Failure to Address the Question of the Unborn’s Moral Status

That is the title of my most recent entry over at The Catholic Thing. It...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

My three presentations at the upcoming Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Milwaukee, November 14-16, 2012

The Evangelical Theological Society will be holding its 64th annual meeting in Milwaukee on November...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

“Potential Persons” in the “After-Birth Abortion” Article

This is my latest over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it begins: As readers...

February 2012

February 17, 2012

Catholic Social Thought and the HHS Mandate

That's the title of my most recent piece at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

February 13, 2012

Two Key Questions that Unlock the HHS “compromise” debate

Do religious-based organizations, such as Catholic hospitals and universities, and businesses owned by devout religious...

February 12, 2012

Archbishop Chaput: “HHS mandate insulting and dangerous”

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia had this to say in this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer:...

February 11, 2012

Cardinal George of Chicago: “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law.”

The following is an open letter authored by Francis Cardinal George, the Catholic Archbishop of...

February 11, 2012

Return to Rome Special Posting: Catholic Bishops-only internal briefing on the HHS regulations “compromise”

The Whispers in the Loggia blog (WITL) has obtained a bishops-only internal briefing that was...

February 10, 2012

HHS “compromise” is Unacceptable, says former Vatican ambassador, Catholic University of America president, and others

(HT: Catholicvote.org) The following public letter was issued today by Mary Anne Glendon (former United...

February 10, 2012

Best explanation of the HHS “compromise”: it’s a shell game

It is the intellectual version of being short-changed. Here's what Ace says at Ace of...

February 07, 2012

Planned Parenthood’s Hostages

That's the title of a piece that was published in this morning's Wall Street Journal....

January 2012

January 19, 2012

My critique of Roe v. Wade and its progeny

Sunday, January 22, is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (1973). Even though many...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

Philosophy, the Handmaid of Judicial Review

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

November 06, 2011

The Argument From Creating Brainless Children

In a chapter I recently published-- "The Human Being, A Person of Substance: A Reply...

November 05, 2011

Can the Personhood of the Embryo Be Rejected Based on Supposed Bad Consequences of Believing In It?

Karen, in the combox in a previous post, raises this concern: Persons get to sue....