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Life Issues

FOR A MORE EXTENSIVE SELECTION OF RESOURCES ON THESE AND OTHER LIFE ISSUES TOPICS, VISIT www.usccb.org/prolife and click on the “Issues” tab.

 
ABORTION             

 Roe Reality Check (USCCB) 
www.secondlookproject.org/tslp_roereality.html

Second Look Project (USCCB)
www.secondlookproject.org/
 
“Moving Toward a Culture of Life” – Cathleen Cleaver Ruse
 
 
The Third Chair Campaign 
 
 
CONTRACEPTION     
        
“Contraception and Abortion: The Underlying Link” – Rev. Walter Schu, LC
 
“The Contraceptive Revolution and Its Fruits” – John Bruchalski, MD, FACOG
 
“Truth About Emergency Contraception: The Post-fertilization Abortion Effect” – Allison LeDoux
 
Statement on the so-called "morning-after pill" – Pontifical Academy for Life, 2000
 
Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) – Pope Paul VI, 1968
 
“Contraception, Why Not?” – Dr. Janet Smith
 
 
ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
 
“Begotten, Not Made: A Catholic View of Reproductive Technology”  - John Haas
 
Donum Vitae (The Gift of Life) - Instruction on Respect for Human Life In its Origin and the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day – Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1987
 
                  
STEM CELL RESEARCH

U.S. Bishops' Statement "On Embryonic Stem Cell Research" (June 2008):
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/bioethic/bishopsESCRstmt.pdf

 

Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning – Questions and Answers: www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/bioethic/stemcell/Q&ABulletinInsert09222004.pdf

 
USCCB’s Stem Cell flyers:
 
“Making Sense of Bioethics” – Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.
 
Additional articles and information at:
www.usccb.org/prolife (USCCB Pro-Life Secretariat)
www.ncbcenter.org (The National Catholic Bioethics Center)
 
 
CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE ETHICS
 
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
 
The National Catholic Bioethics Center
 
Catholic Medical Association
 
 
END OF LIFE CONCERNS

The Manner of Our Dying                        www.usccbpublishing.org/client/client_pdfs/mannerofourdyingbi.pdf

In Support of Life                                             www.macathconf.org/Support.htm                                                                                         

Download the health care proxy form for Catholics in Massachusetts.

A Catholic Guide to End-of-Life Decisions: An Explanation of Church Teaching on Advance Directives, Euthanasia, and Physician Assisted Suicide      www.ncbcenter.org/eol.asp
                   
“Life-sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” – Pope John Paul II, 2004
 
“Responses to Certain Questions Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration”