A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments though each has been revised, the collected essays that constitute this book first appeared elsewhere. i am grateful to the respective publishers for their permission to make use of this material: “the ethics of ectopic Pregnancy: A critical reconsideration of Salpingostomy and methotrexate,” Linacre Quarterly (August 2009): 265–82; “embryo Adoption and the Artificial uterus,” in The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition, ed. Sarah-Vaughan Brakman (london: Springer, August 2007), 313–28, with kind permission of Springer Science and Business media B.V; and “organ Donations After cardiac Death,” The Ethics of Organ Donation, ed. Steve Jensen (Washington, Dc: catholic university of America Press, 2011), 95–113. Several of the essays appeared online at Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good, the online journal of the Witherspoon institute of Princeton, NJ: “the importance of Dignity: A reply to Steven Pinker,” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/01/4540/; “let’s talk about Abortion: A response to Dennis o’Brien,” http://www.thepublic discourse.com/2011/09/3998/; “equal rights for All, Born and unborn,” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/04/2310/; and “Abortion, conscience, and Doctors,” http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/10/ 1922/. i am also grateful for the permission to use “Faith, reason, and Physician-Assisted Suicide,” Christian Bioethics 4.2 (1998): 183–201; and “conscientious objection and health care: A reply to Bernard Dickens ,” Christian Bioethics 18.1 (2012): 59–71. x Acknowledgments chapter 1 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 10.1 (Spring 2010): 175–81, © 2010 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 2 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 10.4 (Winter 2010): 799–805, © 2010 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 3 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 10.3 (Fall 2010): 395–401, © 2010 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 4 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9.3 (Fall 2009): 591–97, © 2009 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 7 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11.4 (Winter 2011): 789–94, © 2011 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 8 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11.3 (Autumn 2011): 579–85, © 2011 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 10 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7.3 (Autumn 2007): 595–600, © 2007 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 11 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9.4 (Winter 2009): 775–81, © 2009 National catholic Bioethics center. chapter 12 is reprinted with permission from Philosophy and theology Notes, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11.2 (Spring 2011): 163–68, © 2011 National catholic Bioethics center. i am also indebted to my research assistants Nicole Antonopoulos and mariele courtois. ...