Though the abortion statistics are fairly well known, they are nonetheless staggering: over
58 million babies have died from abortion since Roe v. Wade in 1973. The world-wide …

John Dombrink is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the
University of California at Irvine. Daniel Hillyard is Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois …

As the twentieth century draws to a close, liberal laws on abortion have become settled in
leading countries of the English-speaking world, and in many others beyond. The issue …

The death of the author's father forced her to rethink all she had written over two decades
opposing legalization of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Years ago, when she …

A controversy that cuts across medical practice and law is the question of the proper reach
and role of conscience in medical practice. This is a particularly acute issue in the context of …

The US Supreme Court's declaration three years ago that there was no constitutional right to
physician-assisted suicide'has not ended the public debate over, or media attention to, the …

Legal and medical decisions regarding death date back more than two millennia, revealing
evolving ethical and jurisprudential concerns surrounding the right to die. 1 Constitutional …

It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the
time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have …

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When I was invited to give this talk I thought," I'll just give my standard slide show on death in
America.''I thought I would just talk about the right to die, something I can do in my sleep, and …