RESOURCES:
CDAV Submissions
Lockhart Human Cloning Submission
End of Life Issues
Post-Coma Unresponsiveness (Persistent Vegetative State)
JPII Address on Persistent Vegetative State (March 2004)
Australian Catholic Bishops Statement on Feeding Unrensponsive Patients (Sept 2004)
"The Subject in the Vegatative State" (April 2004): Bishop Elio Sgreccia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Germain Grisez on Feeding the Permanently Unconscious: "May a husband consent to stopping feeding his permanently unconscious wife?"
Reflections on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (June 2004): Canadian Catholic Bioethics Colloquium
Euthanasia:
Declaration on Euthanasia: Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith(May 1980)
Catechism of the Catholic Church (Excerpt on Euthanasia, 2276-2279)
Evangelium Vitae(Excerpt on Euthanasia), JPII Encyclical "The Gospel of Life"
Germain Grisez on Euthanasia(1):"Will one spouse's rejection of euthanasia for the other violate the Golden Rule?"
Germain Grisez on Euthanasia(2): " Should a wife consent to removing her husband's respirator "to get it over with?"
Miscellaneous:
Beginning of Life Issues:
Abortion:
Press Release of the Taskforce on Pastoral Responses to Abortion, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 25 November 2004.
Evangelium Vitae (Excerpts on Abortion) Nos 57-63. In this section of John Paul II's encyclical clarifies and illuminates the Church's teachings on abortion.