TY - BOOK AU - Kaczor,Christopher Robert ED - Project Muse. TI - A defense of dignity: creating life, destroying life, and protecting the rights of conscience T2 - Notre Dame studies in medical ethics SN - 9780268084608 AV - R725.56 .K33 2013 U1 - 174.2 22 PY - 2013///] CY - Notre Dame, Indiana PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Human rights KW - fast KW - Dignity KW - Bioethics KW - Religious aspects KW - Catholic Church KW - Right to Die KW - ethics KW - Pregnancy KW - Personhood KW - Human Rights KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780268084608/ ER -