Life Issues, Medical Choices

Medical and technological advances over the past decades have left millions of Catholics grappling with tough issues―and these dilemmas will only increase with complexity as medical advances escalate. In this updated and expanded edition, Life Issues, Medical Choices provides clear answers to difficult questions based upon fundamental principles to help concerned Catholics make morally sound choices for themselves and their loved ones. New issues explored in this book―questions pertaining to health care, organ transplants, adoption, elective surgeries, and other important issues―make this essential reading for anyone concerned about protecting and respecting human dignity. Read less

Medical and technological advances over the past decades have left millions of Catholics grappling with tough issues―and these dilemmas will only increase with complexity as medical advances escalate. In this updated and expanded edition, Life Issues, Medical Choices provides clear answers to difficult questions based upon fundamental principles to help concerned Catholics make morally sound choices for themselves and their loved ones. New issues explored in this book―questions pertaining to health care, organ transplants, adoption, elective surgeries, and other important issues―make this essential reading for anyone concerned about protecting and respecting human dignity. Read less

Janet E. Smith is the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. She wrote Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later and Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader. She speaks nationally and internationally on the church's teaching on sexuality and on bioethics. Over one million copies of her talk "Contraception: Why Not" have been distributed.