Fetus As Medical Patient Book

	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	General Introduction
Pt. 1	Bio-Medical Considerations of Prenatal Diagnosis
I	Prenatal Diagnosis	3
II	Human Reproduction	7
III	Human Embryonic Disorders	23
IV	Prenatal Interventions	43
Pt. 2	Ten North American Catholic Moral Theologians
V	Benedict M. Ashley, OP, and Kevin D. O'Rourke, OP	55
VI	Charles E. Curran	75
VII	William E. May	85
VIII	Donald G. McCarthy and Albert S. Moraczewski, OP	93
IX	Richard A. McCormick, SJ, and Lisa Sowle Cahill	109
X	Thomas J. O'Donnell, SJ	125
XI	Thomas A. Shannon and Lisa Sowle Cahill	139
Pt. 3	Critical Evaluation of Seven Relevant Themes
XII	Basic Value Systems	155
XIII	Philosophical and Anthropological Presuppositions	163
XIV	Hominization and Personhood	183
XV	Analysis of the Moral Act	197
XVI	Prenatal Diagnosis Proper	209
XVII	Shift in the Self-Understanding of Medicine	221
XVIII	Dialogue with the Magisterium	239
	Conclusions	253
	Bibliography	257
I	Magisterial Literature	257
II	Ethical and Moral Theological Literature	258
III	Bio-Medical Literature	291