Justice Sotomayor is echoing Justice Harry Blackmun's opinion in Roe v. Wade when he said, "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective ...

The Supreme Court of India is hearing cases on the entry of menstruating women into Kerala's Sabarimala temple. The Centre ...

The ethical questions at stake in debates about abortion are not specifically religious ones. The political pundits in the New York Times and other prominent media outlets have offered dire warnings ...

The Supreme Court and the Centre debated who has the authority to determine superstition in a religion as the top court heard ...

One of the nation’s more controversial issues — abortion — will be the topic of a debate next week sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. The debate, “Abortion: is it Ethical?” will be held at 7 p ...

Many who are readers must have read that popular and much referenced collection of essays under the title Why I Am Not a Christian by the legendary British philosopher Bertrand Russell. Originally a ...