Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience /
Christopher Kaczor.
Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2013]
(Baltimore, Md. :
Project MUSE,
2015)
1 online resource (x, 220 pages )
Notre Dame studies in medical ethics
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
Introduction -- Are all species equal in dignity? -- Equal dignity and equal access to fertility treatments -- Procreative beneficence -- Embryo adoption and artificial wombs -- The ethics of ectopic pregnancy -- The ethics of fetal surgery -- The violinist argument revisited -- Faith, reason, and physician-assisted suicide -- PVS patients and Pope John Paul II -- Organ donation after cardiac death -- Conscience protection and the incompatibility thesis -- Conscientious objection and health care.