An article by a feminist who argues her case for legal abortions is contrasted with an article that condemns the practice of abortion. Woven throughout each major topic is the official teaching of the Catholic Church and a detailed explanation of how Church teaching approaches biomedical issues. I want them to be more thoughtful and knowledgeable about the choices they're going to be making both professionally and personally. The dawning millennium brings a brave new world of medical advances, such as mapping the human genome and using cells of human embryos for treating debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's disease. However, medical advances can clash with ethics and morality in the Catholic viewpoint, Father Friday says.
Technology constantly runs ahead of ethics and law.
The goal of Christian ethics is to help people to become more fully human. You won't find anything in the Bible to deal directly with most of today's medical questions. But you can look to the Scriptures for the basic values that help us to discern what is both reasonable and loving, what ultimately makes us more human, as God intended us to be. A basic value is the dignity and sacredness of every human person. During a summer break from Duquesne University, Father Friday went to Alaska to work with a construction crew.