4 Quotes & Sayings By Douglas W Phillips

Douglas W. Phillips is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, where he taught from 1979 to 2011. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law Read more

He has served as a visiting professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, at Stanford Law School, and the National Judicial College. Professor Phillips was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded an Honorary Degree from Cambridge University. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen articles in leading law reviews, including The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, California Western Law Review, Houston Law Review ,and Virginia Law Review .

He is also author or coauthor of four books on legal ethics: Ethics on Trial: The Case for Legal Ethics (Cambridge University Press) , Ethics on Trial Revisited: The Case for Legal Ethics (Cambridge University Press) , The Ten Commandments of Legal Ethics (ABA Publishing).

Culture is religion externalized.
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Culture is religion externalized. Douglas W. Phillips
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Until we are willing to oppose all abortion-- A L L ABORTION---then the Christian community will lack the true ethical high ground to oppose ANY ABORTIONS. The minute we concede that there is any ground--even in the so-called case of rape, incest or the health of the mother---to make a decision to self-consciously and deliberately kill a child based on our puny, finite understanding of the facts, and a a cost-benefit analysis based on our pragmatic post-modern vision of utlilitarian ethics, we have conceded everything. We have abandoned biblical law and granted to Planned Parenthood the legitimacy of the core argument they have advanced since Margaret Sanger founded the organization--namely, that some circumstances of pregnancy are sufficiently uncomfortable or troubling that man has the right to play God and declare his own authority to take the life of an innocent, unborn baby. Douglas W. Phillips
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Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of the miracle of life. Only a woman can conceive and nurture this life using her own flesh and blood, and then deliver a living soul into the world. God has bestowed upon her alone a genuine miracle – the creation of life, and the fusing of an eternal soul with mortal flesh. This fact alone establishes the glory of motherhood. Despite the most creative plans of humanist scientists and lawmakers to redefine the sexes, no man will ever conceive and give birth to a child. The fruitful womb is a holy gift given by God to women alone. This is one reason why the office of wife and mother is the highest calling to which a woman can aspire. This is the reason why nations that fear the Lord esteem and protect mothers. They glory in the distinctions between men and women, and attempt to build cultures in which motherhood is honored and protected. . Douglas W. Phillips