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Eve Tushnet writes: I’m working on an article about how young adults are increasingly likely to call themselves pro-life, and increasingly likely to support gay marriage. There are a lot of narratives you could tell about how someone comes to hold either or both of these beliefs; I want to get some sense of which [...]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published some guidelines (pdf) for health care reform that it seems to me should be accepted as a basic framework by all people of good will. They argue that health care reform should: ⇒ Include health care coverage for all people from conception until natural death; ⇒ [...]
Filed under: abortion, health care, politics, religion
With JL, let me heartily recommend my friend Helen Rittelmeyer’s initial sketch of a bioethics that “sees love, not autonomy, as the basis of human dignity”. It’s a challenging read, but well worth the work. Perhaps due to what I’ve been blogging about of late, this paragraph was probably my favorite: There is a strong [...]
Filed under: abortion, conservatism, morality
“Never write a memoir,” intoned my undergraduate professor as we discussed selections of the Gulag Archipelago. “If you’ve got to write something of the sort, make it a confession. But not a memoir. Never a memoir. If I ever find out that any of you has written a memoir, I’ll hunt you down and kill [...]
Filed under: abortion, media/culture
Far-too-infrequent ObsidianWinger Sebastian has some good questions about the rhetoric surrounding the George Tiller murder. In the spirit of this post of hilzoy’s, however, it seems to me that an even better approach might be to ask whether, in the face of a series of violent attacks against the homes, property, and persons of UCLA [...]
Filed under: abortion, morality, politics, science/tech
What Freddy said: If, however, we jump out of Sullum’s utilitarian circle for a moment and try to comprehend the idea — central to nearly all abortion opposition — that killing human beings is intrinsically wrong, then it becomes entirely possible to see why people can abhor the life-work of George Tiller while condemning his [...]
What Patrick Deneen said: In my view, the singular focus upon abortion as THE issue over which conservative Catholics will brook no divergence and around which we are called to rally reveals, to my mind, not evidence of robust Catholic culture as much as its absence. It seems to me that – along with the [...]
I don’t have much to say about the grand Catholic brouhaha over President Obama giving this year’s commencement address at my alma mater, though despite my initial reaction just to roll my eyes at all the fuss I’ve got to note that I think Bishop D’Arcy makes a pretty good case that the invitation is [...]
Filed under: abortion, education, morality, religion, torture, war
Somehow I suspect that most of the bloggers and other commentators who went (sometimes appropriately) batshit over the excommunication of the Brazilian mother who procured an abortion for her sexually abused 9-year-old daughter won’t have quite as much to say about the latest developments in that sickening saga (H/T David Gibson, who has much more): [...]
Filed under: abortion, media/culture, religion
One from Tyler Cowen: I am myself more libertarian than conservative but at the same time I am on Douthat’s side in questioning the common presuppositions behind modern opinion. There is a presumption that liberal, tolerant people should have certain views on abortion, stem cell research, and other matters and I am happy to see [...]
Filed under: abortion, morality, philosophy