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A brief, liberal, Catholic defense of abortion / Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete.
- Title
- A brief, liberal, Catholic defense of abortion / Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete.
- Author
- Dombrowski, Daniel A.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ767.3 .D62 2000 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Deltete, Robert John.
- Description
- 158 p.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- "The Catholic church has always opposed abortion, but - contrary to popular belief - not always for the same reasons. This tightly argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a "pro-choice" stance, now held by a significant minority of Catholics, is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an anti-abortion view, and may even be more compatible with Catholic tradition than the current opposition to abortion espoused by many Catholics and most Catholic leaders." "A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion argues that the current Catholic anti-abortion stance is justified neither by modern embryology nor by ancient church teachings. Combining up-to-date information on fetal development with a thorough grasp of the works of the church's early thinkers, Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete expose crucial contradictions between the early and the modern church's views of abortion."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-153) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Cruel lust -- The influence of the seventeenth century -- The importance of temporal asymmetry -- A defensible sexual ethics -- Catholicism and liberalism.
- ISBN
- 0252025504 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99006707^
- OCLC
- 41662231
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library