Mark H. Bonner and Jennifer A. Sheriff, A Child Needs a Champion: Guardian Ad Litem Representation for Prenatal Children, 19 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 511 (2013), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol19/iss3/3 ABSTRACT Prenatal children, a/k/a unborn children, are easy to victimize and hard to protect. U.S. laws provide some protection for them, but are weak when…
http://www.comece.eu/site/en/ourwork/pressreleases/2015/article/8633.html Gestational surrogacy is an issue of increasing preoccupation and concern in contemporary political and legal debate across the European Union. Against that background, the COMECE Working Group on Ethics in Research and Medicine has published an “Opinion on Gestational Surrogacy: the question of European and International Rules” , which is presented today, 23 February,…
Il riconoscimento in Italia dei provvedimenti stranieri di “stepchild adoption” da parte del coniuge “same sex” del genitore biologico: il Tribunale per i Minorenni di Bologna solleva la questione di legittimità costituzionale degli artt. 35 e 36 della legge 184/1983 di Emanuele Bilotti Con ordinanza del 10 novembre 2014 il Tribunale per i Minorenni di…
This article critically argues that “same sex marriage” does not expand the benefits of traditional marriage to everyone; rather, it fundamentally changes the meaning of marriage by making gender (sex) optional. In so doing, the already tenuous connection between sexuality, marriage, and procreation is further weakened. In particular, the argument is made that marriage always served as…
This article examines European institutions and their developing policies from a Catholic perspective. It explores how different EU institutions work and are justified as “democratic.” In particular, the article focuses on a dangerous development within EU institutions towards gender ideology, an essentially Marxist ideology. It also discusses non-negotiable principles that Catholic are bound in conscience to uphold, and how…
