From early writings of our oldest religious traditions through recent controversies surrounding the Hobby Lobby case and the ever-divisive question of abortion, questions of reproduction raise some of the most difficult and fascinating issues in bioethics. Whether in the harsh glare of law, policy, and politics, or in the intimacy of the family, decisions around contraception, abortion, procreation, infertility, assisted reproduction, gamete donation, and surrogacy engage both religious and secular perspectives. Much has been written on broader bioethical perspectives on reproductive issues, but it is equally important to understand religious perspectives on these matters, as the news stories frequently remind us. The Oxford Handbook of Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics is a pioneering, cutting-edge compilation of analysis and reflection on the ethics of reproductive technology, from Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and Islamic perspectives. Topics include ethical analyses of parenthood (including gay parenting), adoption, contraception, abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, gamete donation, and surrogate parenthood. Authors range from the newest scholars to the most senior,from the most progressive to the most conservative.
Introduction Dena S. Davis The Abrahamic Religious Traditions Chapter One Jewish Ethics: Theological Foundations, Classical Sources, Hermeneutical Challenges Louis E. Newman Chapter Two Sources of Catholic Moral Theology Dolores L. Christie Chapter Three Protestant Sources of Moral Knowledge Karen L. Lebacqz Chapter Four Muslim Reproductive Ethics: Sources and Methodology Abdulaziz Sachedina Chapter Five The Role of Authority in Understanding Religious Ethics Dena S. Davis Chapter Six Natural Law and Reproductive Ethics Bethany Kieran Haile The Ethics of Being a Parent Chapter Seven Beyond the First Commandment: Procreation and Parenting in Judaism Seth Goren Chapter Eight Catholic Theology of Parenthood Ann Swaner Chapter Nine Protestant Perspectives on Procreation and Parenting Joel James Shuman Chapter Ten Children and Parents in the Qur'an and Premodern Islamic Jurisprudence Janan Delgado and Celene Ibrahim Chapter Eleven Religious Perspectives on Gay Parenting Brett Krutzsch Chapter Twelve Religious Perspectives on Population Justice Daniel C. Maguire Different Ways of Making Families Chapter Thirteen Adoption, Personal Status, and Jewish Law Michael J. Broyde Chapter Fourteen Islamic Perspectives on Adoption Faisal Kutty Chapter Fifteen Adopting Embryos John Berkman Chapter Sixteen Biblical Contexts for Adoption and Surrogacy David M. Smolin Chapter Seventeen Jewish Perspectives on Gamete Use, Donation, and Surrogacy Elliot N. Dorff Chapter Eighteen Islamic Perspectives on Gamete Donation and Surrogacy Ayman Shabana Contraception and Abortion Chapter Nineteen Be Fruitful and Multiply...Except...: Contraception in Judaism: Balancing Competing Values Michal Raucher Chapter Twenty Catholic Teaching on Contraception: An Unsettled Business? Aline H. Kalbian Chapter Twenty-One Contraception: Protestant Evangelical Perspectives David Fletcher Chapter Twenty-Two Abortion in the Jewish Tradition of Religious Humanism Noam Zohar Chapter Twenty-Three The Roman Catholic Position on Abortion Patrick Lee Chapter Twenty-Four Why Protestants Should Stop Talking (or at Least Talk Less) about Abortion Kathryn D. Blanchard Chapter Twenty-Five Islamic Perspectives on Abortion Thomas Eich Chapter Twenty-Six Public Opinion and Attitudes toward Abortion: Patterns Across Religious Traditions Ted G. Jelen Prenatal Diagnosis Chapter Twenty-Seven Pregnancy and Piety: The Situated Ethics of Prenatal Diagnostic Technologies for Ultra- Orthodox Jewish Women Elly Teman and Tsipy Ivry Chapter Twenty-Eight Christian Perspectives on Prenatal Diagnosis Karen Peterson-Iyer Chapter Twenty-Nine Evangelical Perspectives on Prenatal Testing Paige Cunningham
Dena S. Davis has a Ph.D. from University of Iowa (Religion) and a JD from University of Virginia. After teaching for over two decades at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, she now holds the Presidential Chair in Health (Humanities/Social Sciences) at Lehigh University. She has been a visiting scholar at Arizona State University; the Hastings Center; the Brocher Foundation; and the National Institutes of Health. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in India, Israel, Indonesia, Italy, and Sweden.
