September 21, 2009

Short Take

Toxic Legacy

WHY THE ENVIRONMENT IS A LIFE ISSUE

Maura Ryan

Catholics have not been shy about recommending policies to the Obama administration, especially policies related to the much-contested “life issues.” But one issue of great consequence to the lives of children, born or unborn, has been largely overlooked by the most vocal Catholic activists: environmental health. Indeed, the environment and children's health are still often (...)


 

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about the writer

Maura Ryan is John Cardinal O’Hara Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent book, Health, Development and Human Rights: New Directions for Christian Bioethics, will be published by Georgetown University Press.

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