Academic Articles

Abortion and Embryo Destruction

“The Ethics of Abortion: Clarifying Misconceptions” by Melissa Moschella

“Embryology: Inconvenient Facts” by William L. Saunders, Jr.

“Embryology and Science Denial” by Patrick Lee and Melissa Moschella

The Wrong of Abortion” by Robert P. George and Patrick Lee from Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Wellman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2005)

Acorns and Embryos” by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George

The Stubborn Facts of Science: Human Embryos are Human Beings” by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George

Delusions of Dualism: The Human Being is an Integrated Unit” a reply to Professor Paul Bloom of Yale University, by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George

Human Personhood Begins at Conception” by Peter Kreeft

I Was Once a Fetus: an Identity-Based Argument Against Abortion” by Alexander Pruss

When do Human Beings Begin?” by Dianne N. Irving

“Why the Arguments about ‘Bodily Autonomy’ and ‘Forced Birth’ Fail to Justify Abortion” by Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis


Pro-Life Feminism

How Abortion Hurts Women: The Hard Evidence by Erika Bachiochi, JD


Stem Cells

Human-Embryo Liberation a reply to Peter Singer by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George


Euthanasia

Cast Me Not Off in Old Age” by Eric Cohen and Leon R. Kass

“Personhood, Dignity, Suicide, and Euthanasia” by Patrick Lee

“A Right to Euthanasia?” by John Keown

“Physician-Assisted Suicide and Personal Action: Responding to the Law” by Christopher Tollefsen


Religious Resources

Abortion” by Rabbi David Novak

Abortion in Halakhic Literature”  by Rabbi David Bleich

Evangelium Vitae Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life

Address on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” by Pope John Paul II

Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day” from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Declaration on Euthanasia” from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Respect for the Dignity of the Dying” from the Pontifical Academy for Life


Other Articles

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” a critique of Princeton’s Peter Singer, by Jenny Teichman