A brief, liberal, Catholic defense of abortion
By: Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete.
Contributors: Deltete, Robert John.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Description: "The Catholic church has always opposed abortion, but - contrary to popular belief - not always for the same reasons. This tightly argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a "pro-choice" stance, now held by a significant minority of Catholics, is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an anti-abortion view, and may even be more compatible with Catholic tradition than the current opposition to abortion espoused by many Catholics and most Catholic leaders.".

"A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion argues that the current Catholic anti-abortion stance is justified neither by modern embryology nor by ancient church teachings. Combining up-to-date information on fetal development with a thorough grasp of the works of the church's early thinkers, Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete expose crucial contradictions between the early and the modern church's views of abortion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-153) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cruel lust : Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas; title: The influence of the seventeenth century; title: The importance of temporal asymmetry; title: Defensible sexual ethics; title: Catholicism and liberalism.