Catholic attorney Nikolas Nikas will offer a presentation on, The Crisis of Reason in Western Law and Its Impact on Medicine: How the absence of a natural law understanding in modern law has undermined medicine’s ability to assist patients and uphold the dignity of life.
The event is open to Catholic healthcare workers, legal professionals, and their spouses.
Nikolas T. Nikas is co-founder, president and general counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), a public-interest organization that creates winning arguments for life to benefit lawmakers, courts, students and citizens across the United States and abroad. Nikas addresses bioethics issues including abortion, healthcare rights of conscience, human cloning/embryonic stem cell research, and end of life matters.
Among other cases, Nikas has litigated ballot initiatives regarding human cloning and embryonic stem cell research, healthcare rights of conscience, clinic regulations and state-passed limits on late-term abortion. Nikas has organized and participated in the oral argument preparation for attorneys arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court addressing the issues of partial-birth abortion, Stenberg v. Carhart (2000), and free speech for peaceful sidewalk counselors, McCullen v. Coakley (2014).
Nikas has spoken at several different medical schools, the Catholic Medical Association national conference, colleges, seminaries, law schools, and the Catholic Bar Association national conference. Locally he has given talks at St. Bernadette parish in Linville. He has published a book about end of life decisions, Now and at the Our of Our Death, through Ignatius Press.