Ethics of Procreation and the Defense of Human Life: Contraception, Artifical Fertilization, and Abortion Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................vii
Editor's Preface....................ix
Introduction: Between Protection and Threats....................xi
1. Natural Law and the Thomistic Roots of John Paul II's Ethics of Human Life....................1
Prologue: Contraception and Virtue....................33
2. The Post-conciliar State of the Question on Contraception: The Encyclical, Relevant Case, Arguments, and Description of Contraception....................39
3. Toward an Adequate Argument in Support of Humanae Vitae: The Necessary Integration of Anthropology, Action Theory, Virtue, and Natural Law....................71
4. The Use of Contraceptives under Threat of Rape: An Exception? Clarifying a Central Teaching of Veritatis Splendor....................133
5. The Instrumentalization of Human Life: Ethical Considerations Concerning Reproductive Technology....................153
6. Human Fetuses, Persons, and the Right to Abortion: Toward an Absolute Power of the Born?....................179
7. The Legal Defense of Prenatal Life in Constitutional Democracies....................228
Appendix: An Initial Response to Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler....................285
Bibliography....................291
Index....................301