Ethics of procreation and the defense of human life
Subtitle: contraception, artificial fertilization, and abortion
By: Martin Rhonheimer ; edited by William F. Murphy, Jr
Contributors: Murphy, William F.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780813217222
Other titles: Ethics of procreation & the defense of human life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural law and the thomistic roots of John Paul II's ethics of human life; title: Sexuality and responsibility: contraception as an ethical problem; title: The post-conciliar state of the question on contraception: the encyclical, relevant case, arguments, and description of contraception; title: Toward an adequate argument in support of humanae vitae: the necessary integration of anthropology, action theory, virtue, and natural law; title: The use of contraceptives under threat of rape: an exception? clarifying a central teaching of veritatis splendor; title: Injustices regarding human life: reproductive technology and abortion; title: The instrumentalization of human life: ethical considerations concerning reproductive technology; title: Human fetuses, persons, and the right to abortion: toward an absolute power of the born?; title: The legal defense of prenatal life in constitutional democracies.