Some of the subjects he teaches and writes about:
http://www.jcu.edu/religion/Lauritzen/vita.htm
Paul Lauritzen, professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll University, testified in a report to the July meeting of President Bush's Council on Bioethics that human embryos are not persons, and that embryonic stem cell experiments should proceed. He criticized the Church's insistence that laws should respect the embryo as "a human subject with a well-defined identity."