Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues

A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying

By (author) D. Brian Scarnecchia

Hardback - £78.00

Publication date:

02 June 2010

Length of book:

460 pages

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

ISBN-13: 9780810874220

Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying draws on the Magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church to outline a Catholic response to a host of controversial issues related to human life. Scarnecchia lays out a Catholic moral theology based on the writings of Pope John Paul II and Thomas Aquinas, and he then applies those Christian moral principles to today's most contentious ethical issues, including reproductive technology, embryo adoption, contraception, abortion, family and same-sex marriage, and euthanasia and assisted suicide. This review of Catholic moral principles brings together an in-depth consideration of the central human life issues of our day with abundant reference to the Church's social teaching and to contrasting positions of today's leading ethicists.
Any ethicists, priest, or Protestant minister interested in both ethics and the Catholic position on these issues will find this book a valuable resource and reference for years to come. The volume is thoroughly researched and documented.