Christopher Kaczor Boeken

Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in contemporary scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This collection of essays takes up questions about the dawn of human life, including: Should we make children with three (or more) parents? Is it better never to have been born? and Is the so called 'after-birth' abortion wrong? This volume also asks about the dusk of human life: Is 'death with dignity' a dangerous euphemism? Should euthanasia be permitted for children? and Does assisted suicide harm those who do not choose to die? Still other questions are asked concerning recent views that health care professionals should not have a right to conscientiously object to legal and accepted medical practices. Finally, the book addresses questions about separating conjoined twins as well as the issue of whether the species of an individual makes a difference for the individual's moral status. Christopher Kaczor critiques some of the most recent and influential positions in bioethics, while eschewing both consequentialism and principalism. Rooted in the Catholic principle that faith and reason are harmonious, this book shows how Catholic bioethical teaching is rationally defensible in terms that people of good will, secular or religious, can accept. Proceeding from a natural law perspective, Kaczor defends the inherent dignity of all human beings and argues that they merit the protection of their basic human goods because of that inherent dignity. Philosophers interested in applied ethics, as well as students and professors of law, will profit from reading Disputes in Bioethics. --Book cover

Focusing on a rational approach, this comprehensive work presents a critical examination of the arguments against abortion, addressing the fundamental rights of fetal human beings. The third edition thoroughly evaluates the major justifications for denying these rights, appealing to logic and ethics rather than religious perspectives.

Je klamstvo vždy nesprávne? Alebo existujú prípady, v ktorých je klamstvo dovolené? Ako by ste odpovedali nacistovi, ktorý sa vás pri dverách pýta, či ukrývate Židov? Vo februári 2011 americká mládežnícka pro-life organizácia Live Action uverejnila na internete videá, v ktorých jej aktivisti prezlečení za pasákov a prostitútky získavajú informácie o možnosti získania antikoncepcie, potratov a lekárskej starostlivosti od pracovníkov rôznych pobočiek štátom spolufinancovanej organizácie Planned Parenthood, venujúcej sa práve týmto činnostiam. Ústretovosť a ochota niektorých zamestnancov Planned Parenthood voči údajným prostitútkam, niektorým dokonca mladistvým, vyvolala v Spojených štátoch škandál vedúci až k hlasovaniu o zastavení štátneho financovania tejto inštitúcie v dolnej komore amerického parlamentu. V hnutí za život videá Live Action vyvolali búrlivú diskusiu o morálnosti jej praktík a vôbec o morálnosti klamstva na záchranu života. Táto kniha prináša časť diskusie, ktorá prebehla na americkom diskusnom portáli Public Discourse, doplnenú o teologickú a filozofickú argumentáciu i historické príklady ilustrujúce túto závažnú otázku.