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