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Biology: When Does Life Begin? Fr. Kevin FitzGerald, S.J. (Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University)
Abortion: Law & Policy Prof. O. Carter Snead (Notre Dame Law School)
Prenatal Screening, Diagnosis, and Selective Abortion Mary O’Callaghan (Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture) & Katie Shaw
Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New York
Abortion: The Philosophical Arguments Prof. Frank Beckwith (Baylor University)
Abortion & The Church: Resisting a Throw Away Culture Fr. John Paul Kimes (Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith)
Cardinal Dolan’s remarks were basically a welcome to the participants, and by far the shortest of any of the sessions. Dolan primarily spoke on the past half century of New York City’s witness to life in a culture that has enshrined a sort of official indifference, with a default stance of skepticism toward life-affirming attitudes, to the situation of vulnerable persons:
Afterwards I met my friend Peter Atkinson at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral for mass, and we caught up over dinner at Lombardi’s Pizzeria nearby.
