Ethics of procreation and the defense of human life [electronic resource] : contraception, artificial fertilization, and abortion / Martin Rhonheimer ; edited by William F. Murphy, Jr.
Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 309 p.)ISBN:- 9780813218052 (electronic bk.)
- 0813218055 (electronic bk.)
- Ethics of procreation & the defense of human life [Cover title]
- Human reproductive technology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Contraception -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Religion and Medicine
- Abortion, Induced -- ethics
- Contraception -- ethics
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- ethics
- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- 179.7/6 22
- RG133.5 .R56 2010eb
- 2010 D-413
- WB 60
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Natural law and the thomistic roots of John Paul II's ethics of human life -- Sexuality and responsibility: contraception as an ethical problem -- The post-conciliar state of the question on contraception: the encyclical, relevant case, arguments, and description of contraception -- Toward an adequate argument in support of humanae vitae: the necessary integration of anthropology, action theory, virtue, and natural law -- The use of contraceptives under threat of rape: an exception? clarifying a central teaching of veritatis splendor -- Injustices regarding human life: reproductive technology and abortion -- The instrumentalization of human life: ethical considerations concerning reproductive technology -- Human fetuses, persons, and the right to abortion: toward an absolute power of the born? -- The legal defense of prenatal life in constitutional democracies.
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