SEXUAL ETHICS BIBLIOGRAPHY - University of San Francisco

Abortion
Boonin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Reviewed by James T. Bretzke, S.J. in Theological Studies.
Bosgra, Tj. Abortion, the Bible and the Church. Honolulu: Right to Life Educational Foundation,
1981.
A survey of 150 denominational views.
Boss, Judith A. The Birth Lottery: Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion. Values & Ethics
Series, 5. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1993.
Examines the issues of selective abortion in light of prenatal diagnosis involving different
genetic disorders, amniocentesis, CVS, etc. Arguments for selective abortion are rebutted,
and Boss challenges the ethical use of prenatal diagnosis itself as a tool for selective
abortion.
Bushnell, Dana E, ed. "Nagging" Questions: Feminist Ethics in Everyday Life. Lanham MD:
University Press of America, 1995.
In this anthology of new and classic articles, fifteen noted feminist philosophers explore
contemporary ethical issues that uniquely affect the lives of women. These issues in applied
ethics include autonomy, responsibility, sexual harassment, women in the military, new
technologies for reproduction, surrogate motherhood, pornography, abortion, coerced birth
control, cosmetic surgery, anorexia nervosa, in vitro fertilization, feminist masochism and
nonfeminist women.
Byrnes, Timothy A., and Segers, Mary C., eds. The Catholic Church and the Politics of Abortion.
Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Ten original essays which analyze the efforts of the Catholic Church in the United States to
shape public policy on abortion.
Callahan, Sidney, and Callahan, Daniel, eds. Abortion: Understanding Differences. New York:
Plenum Press, 1984.
Carmody, Denise Lardner. The Double Cross: Ordination, Abortion, and Catholic Feminism. New
York: Crossroad, 1986.
Cobb, John B., Jr. Matters of Life and Death. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1991.
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