Last Updated September 23,2008
Assorted Links to Some Topics
	Below are a number of links at least tangentially related to issues and ideas discussed in our Contemporary Moral Problems class. These are included in the event a student is seeking more information on a subject. Please don’t confuse an item’s inclusion here as an endorsement or even as a claim regarding the site’s quality – these are just a few places from which to begin your own investigations.
Abortion Related Material
1. Sunshine for Women: Link to “abortion with an attitude” page. There are tons of links regarding the legal and medical history of abortion; contraception; organizations; etc. Primarily (but not exclusively) pro-choice & feminist in orientation.
2. Supreme Court’s Abortion-related Decisions
a. Text of Roe v. Wade (1973)
b. Text of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
c. Other Supreme Court cases (through 1992, after 1990)
Biblical Matters
3. 613 Commandments (the Mitzvot)
a. Judaism 101 site
b. Must Christians obey the law of the Old Testament?
4. Contradictions in Scripture (at Skeptic’s Annotated Bible)
5. Evolution of the Biblical Canon
a. Early Christian Writings
b. Apocrypha
c. Gnostic Gospels
i. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas – stories of Jesus as a boy
d. Historical changes to what constitutes THE Bible
i. Biblical Canon in various traditions: What counts & for whom
Capital Punishment
6. The Bible and the Death Penalty (from ReligiousTolerance.org)
7. Death Penalty and the American Civil Liberties Union
8. Department of Justice statistics
a. Crimes punishable by death (by state) as of 2001
b. Crimes punishable by death (federal) as of 1995
9. John Stuart Mill: "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment"
10. Race and the Death Penalty
11. Worldwide status of Capital Punishment (from Amnesty International)
Euthanasia & Physician Assisted Suicide
12. On Living Wills and Designation of a Health Care Proxy
a. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences http://www.uams.edu/patient_info/advance_medical_directives.pdf
b. University of Arkansas, Cooperative Extension Service http://www.arcommunities.org/volunteers/Volunteer_Leader_Training_Guide/2004/living_will.pdf
13. Advance Directives & Do Not Resuscitate Orders
14. Hemlock Society: “End-of-Life Choices” advocacy organization
15. Living Will (a sample pdf)
16. National Conference of Catholic Bishops official position
17. Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” Act
18. ReligiousTolerance.org on Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide
19. Suicide and the Bible
20. Terri Schiavo Related Material
Female Genital Mutilation
21. 2005 Update from UNICEF
22. Amnesty International Site
23. ReligiousTolerance.org
24. World Health Organization
Just War Theory: Terrorism, Violence and Pacifism
25. Pastoral Letter on War and Peace from U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
a. Just War – or a Just War? (NY Times Op-Ed) by President Jimmy Carter
26. “Asymmetrical Warfare & Just War: A moral obligation” Michael Novak making the case for war in Iraq (from National Review 2/10/03)
a. The CIA’s page on Terrorism and links on the subject
27. Carthage and Salt (see Section on Third Punic War)
Philosophical Dictionaries on-line
28. Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy
29. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
30. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Plato’s Euthyphro