Symposium: Where Do We Go from Dobbs?
About the Author
Carl A. Anderson is past Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus. Under his leadership, the Knights introduced many powerful new programs in defense of life, including the Ultrasound Initiative, in which local councils raise funds that are matched by the Supreme Council to purchase ultrasound machines for pregnancy centers. As a result, over 16.1 million dollars has been raised to purchase over 540 machines, which allow pregnant women to see their unborn children, and turn their hearts toward life.
Clarke D. Forsythe serves as Senior Counsel at Americans United for Life and is author of Abuse of Discretion: The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade (Encounter Books, 2014).
David Quinn is a columnist with The Irish Independent and the Irish Catholic and the founder and Director of The Iona Institute in Dublin (info@ionainstitute.ie.).
Edward Mechmann is an attorney and Director of Public Policy for the Archdiocese of New York.
George McKenna is professor emeritus of political science at City College of New York.
Gerard V. Bradley has been Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame since 1992. A prolific author, his latest book is Catholic Social Teaching: A Volume of Scholarly Essays, which he co-edited with Christian Brugger, published by Cambridge University Press. He and his wife Pamela, who met when they were law students at Cornell, have raised eight children. Only four have become attorneys—so far.
Marvin Olasky is the co-author (with Leah Savas) of The Story of Abortion in America: A Street Level History, 1652-2022, published in January.
Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. In May 2004, Smith was named one of the nation’s premier thinkers in bioengineering by the National Journal because of his work in bioethics. In 2008, the Human Life Foundation named him a Great Defender of Life.
William Murchison, a former syndicated columnist, is a senior editor of the Human Life Review. He will soon finish his book on moral restoration in our time.
While pre-natal care, L & D should be free, why stop at birth? What about pro-life politicians stop cutting SNAP and Medicaid as soon as they take office? What about subsidized day care so mom can work? This would go a long way to reverse people’s stereotype of pro-lifers only care about the unborn and not the born. While we’re at it, consider the 2y/o in status asthmaticus whose family does not have health insurance? That child is just in danger of death as a baby whose mom is determined to get rid of it. Life does, indeed, begin at conception. However–here’s the kicker–life does not end at birth.