Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/00243639231165252
John Haas, Rev Tadeusz Pacholczyk
{"title":"Moral Contraindications to the Adoption of Abandoned, Frozen Human Embryos.","authors":"John Haas, Rev Tadeusz Pacholczyk","doi":"10.1177/00243639231165252","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231165252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10030408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1177/00243639221082213
Walter R Schumm, Duane W Crawford
{"title":"Difficulties With Methodology in Social Science Research With Controversial Issues Regarding Human Sexuality.","authors":"Walter R Schumm, Duane W Crawford","doi":"10.1177/00243639221082213","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639221082213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social science is commonly used in debates about controversial issues, especially for those concerning human sexuality. However, caution must be exercised in interpreting such social science literature, because of a variety of methodological and theoretical weaknesses that are not uncommon. Families are complex structurally and over time; such data are not easily analyzed. Merely determining the number of, for example, sexual minority families has been a difficult task. While some new theories are popular with social scientists, for example, sexual minority theory, they are often used to the exclusion of other, equally valid theories and often are not well tested empirically. Some types of families remain relatively unexamined. Social scientists can be biased by their own values, which are reflected in weak use of theory and in a variety of methodological problems. Eight studies are presented as examples of probable confirmation bias, in which methods and theory were modified in unusual ways that may have affected the outcomes and conclusions. Suggestions for improving social science include greater attention to effect sizes rather than statistical significance per se, deliberately minimizing the politicization of science, developing a culture of humility with respect to social science, deliberately reducing common biases, and maintaining a deeper curiosity about social science than is often seen. Scientists must be open to seeing their best \"sacred cow\" ideas or theories disproven or modified with increases in research on such issues.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>In controversial areas of social science, there can be numerous threats to the validity of science. Here, some of the more common risks for social science research and theory are examined, with several specific illustrations of how bias appears to have crept into social science, often as confirmation bias. Recommendations are made for reducing bias in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265389/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10646875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1177/00243639231162438
Patrick Pullicino, Edward J Richard, William J Burke
{"title":"Human-Animal Chimera Formation for Organ Transplantation: Subjugating Human Embryonic Development to Animal Control.","authors":"Patrick Pullicino, Edward J Richard, William J Burke","doi":"10.1177/00243639231162438","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231162438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265379/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10646878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1177/00243639231162436
Anthony McCarthy, Helen Watt
{"title":"Double-Effect Donation or Bodily Respect? A \"Third Way\" Response to Camosy and Vukov.","authors":"Anthony McCarthy, Helen Watt","doi":"10.1177/00243639231162436","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231162436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Is it possible to donate unpaired vital organs, foreseeing but not intending one's own death? We argue that this is indeed psychologically possible, and thus far agree with Charles Camosy and Joseph Vukov in their recent paper on \"double effect donation.\" Where we disagree with these authors is that we see double-effect donation not as a morally praiseworthy act akin to martyrdom but as a morally impermissible act that necessarily disrespects human bodily integrity. Respect for bodily integrity goes beyond avoiding the aim to kill: not all side effects of deliberate bodily interventions can be outweighed by intended benefits for another even if the subject fully consents. It is not any necessary intention to kill or harm another or oneself that makes lethal donation/harvesting illicit but the more immediate intention to accept or perform surgery on an (innocent) person combined with the foresight of lethal harm and no health-related good for him or her. Double-effect donation falls foul of the first condition of double-effect reasoning in that the immediate act is wrong in itself. We argue further that the wider effects of such donation would be socially disastrous and corrupting of the medical profession: doctors should retain a sense of nonnegotiable respect for bodily integrity even when they intervene on willing subjects for the benefit of others. <b>Summary:</b> Lethal organ donation (for example, donating one's heart) is not a praiseworthy but a morally impermissible act. This is not because such donation necessarily involves any aim to kill oneself (if one is the donor) or to kill the donor (if one is the surgeon). Respect for bodily integrity goes beyond avoiding any hypothetical aim to kill or harm oneself or another innocent person. 'Double effect donation' of unpaired vital organs, defended by Camosy and Vukov, is in our view a form of lethal bodily abuse and would also harm the transplant team, the medical profession and society at large.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265387/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10030407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1177/00243639231153724
Katherine Rafferty, Tessa Longbons
{"title":"Understanding Women's Communication with Their Providers During Medication Abortion and Abortion Pill Reversal: An Exploratory Analysis.","authors":"Katherine Rafferty, Tessa Longbons","doi":"10.1177/00243639231153724","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231153724","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Introduction/Objective:</b> Medication abortion is a common experience for women in the United States, now totaling over 50% of all abortions. The purpose of this exploratory analysis is to understand women's medication abortion and abortion pill reversal decision-making experiences, with a particular focus on their communication with their medical providers. <b>Methods:</b> We surveyed women who contacted Heartbeat International to inquire about abortion pill reversal. Eligible women had to complete a minimum of the 2-week progesterone protocol in order to answer the questions on the electronic survey about their medication abortion and abortion pill reversal decisions. We assessed decision difficulty using a Likert scale and provider communication using the Questionnaire on the Quality of Physician-Patient (QQPPI) and analyzed women's narratives about their experiences using thematic analysis. <b>Results:</b> Thirty-three respondents met the eligibility criteria and filled out the QQPPI and decision-difficulty scales. Using the QQPPI scale, women scored their communication with their APR providers as significantly better than their communication with their abortion providers (<i>p</i> < 0.0001). Women reported that choosing medication abortion was significantly more difficult than choosing abortion pill reversal (<i>p</i> < 0.0001). White women, women with college degrees, and women who were not in a relationship with the father of the child reported more difficulty in choosing APR. <b>Conclusion:</b> As the number of women who contact the national hotline to inquire about abortion pill reversal increases, the need to understand the experiences of this growing population of women becomes more salient. This need is particularly important for health care providers who prescribe medication abortion and abortion pill reversal. The quality of the physician-patient interaction is essential to providing effective medical care to pregnant women.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265391/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10646877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/00243639231165244
{"title":"Address of his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Thursday, 3 May 2012).","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00243639231165244","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639231165244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265390/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10030415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639231162430
Lealani Mae Y Acosta
{"title":"Scattered Seed and the Harvest: The Best Things That I've Grown I Never Planted.","authors":"Lealani Mae Y Acosta","doi":"10.1177/00243639231162430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231162430","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A physician struggling to grow in her career finds an apt analogy in being a fledgling gardener and learns to trust that God's hand has been planting the seeds all along.</p>","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/09/74/10.1177_00243639231162430.PMC10265383.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10646883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/00243639221134474
Adam E Frey
{"title":"Reaffirming Human Dignity in Disputes Over Children Born From Assisted Reproductive Technologies.","authors":"Adam E Frey","doi":"10.1177/00243639221134474","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639221134474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10265380/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10030412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639231161315
{"title":"Call for Papers Special Issue November 2023: Exploring Outcomes from The Response to Covid","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00243639231161315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639231161315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49480245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2023-02-01Epub Date: 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00243639221107732
Joseph M Eble
{"title":"The Catholic Medical Association Should Officially Oppose the Utilization of Neurologic Criteria to Determine Death in Clinical Practice.","authors":"Joseph M Eble","doi":"10.1177/00243639221107732","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00243639221107732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009136/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9491523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}