Bioethics Law and Human Life Issues A Catholic Perspective on Marriage Family Contraception Abortion Reproductive Technology and Death and Dying draws on the Magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church to outline a Catholic response to a host of controversial issues related to human life. Scarnecchia lays out a Catholic moral theology based on the writings of Pope John Paul II and Thomas Aquinas and he then applies those Christian moral principles to todays most contentious ethical issues including reproductive technology embryo adoption contraception abortion family and samesex marriage and euthanasia and assisted suicide. This review of Catholic moral principles brings together an indepth consideration of the central human life issues of our day with abundant reference to the Churchs social teaching and to contrasting positions of todays leading ethicists.