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  • “Pro-Choice ‘Personhood’: An Abortive Concept”, by Andrew J. Peach, J.D., Ph.D., Life and Learning XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2003, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2003): pp. 187-210. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XIII (2003) at University Faculty for Life.

See also the texts listed on the page Humanity and Human Life, and the following related texts:

  • “Conforming to the Rule of Law: Person and Human Being in 14th Amendment Jurisprudence”, by Professor Charles I. Lugosi, S.J.D., Life and Learning XVI: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2006, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2006): pp. 105-222. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XVI (2006) at University Faculty for Life.
  • “The Embryo as Person”, by Fr. Kevin D. O’Rourke, O.P., JCD, STM, Life and Learning XVI: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2006, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2006): pp. 281-296. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XVI (2006) at University Faculty for Life.
  • “Fairness, Freedom, and Responsibility”, by Professor Montague Brown, Ph.D., The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom, edited by Peter A. Pagan Aguiar and Terese Auer, O.P., with a Foreword by Alice Ramos with an Introduction by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. (Washington, DC.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009): pp. 284-298 (Copyright © 2009 by the American Maritain Association). Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom at the Jacques Maritain Center: American Maritain Association.
  • “The Interrelated Defense of Abortion and Pornography in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Professor Anne Barbeau Gardiner, Ph.D., Life and Learning XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2003, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2003): pp. 87-101. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XIII (2003) at University Faculty for Life.
  • “Is the Fetus a Fetish?”, by Professor Bernadette Waterman Ward, Ph.D., Life and Learning XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2003, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2003): pp. 211-221. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XIII (2003) at University Faculty for Life.
  • “Making the Best Argument for Unborn Life: Understanding the Racist and Sexist Assumptions of Abortion”, by Prof. Ben Voth, Ph.D., Life and Learning XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2003, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2003): pp. 173-185. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XIII (2003) at University Faculty for Life.
  • “Margaret Sanger’s Multifaceted Defense of Abortion and Infanticide”, by Professor Anne Barbeau Gardiner, Ph.D., Life and Learning XVI: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2006, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2006): pp. 423-437. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XVI (2006) at University Faculty for Life.
  • “Respecting Human Life in 21st Century America: A Moral Perspective to Extend Civil Rights to the Unborn from Creation to Natural Death”, by Professor Charles I. Lugosi, S.J.D., Saint Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Winter 2004). Available in pdf format at Saint Louis University.
  • “Roman Catholic Church Teaching and Abortion: A Historical View from the Early Church to Modern Day”, by Maren Brady (Honors Thesis, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, May 2020). Available in pdf format on this page of Baylor University.
  • “Thirty Years of Roe v. Wade”, by Professor Wanda Franz, Ph.D., Life and Learning XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth University Faculty for Life Conference at Georgetown University, 2003, edited by Professor Fr. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, 2003): pp. 223-236. Available in pdf format on this page through the Table of Contents page of Life and Learning XIII (2003) at University Faculty for Life.

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