Table of Contents

Contributors ; Introduction ; "Each One an Entire World": A Jewish Perspective on Family Planning ; Contraception and Abortion in Roman Catholicism ; Contraception and Abortion Within Protestant Christianity ; Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in Islam: Undertaking Khilafah ; The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion: The Hindu View ; The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in Thai Buddhism ; Family Planning and Abortion: Cultural Norms Versus Actual Practices in Nigeria ; Reproductive Rites and Wrongs: Lessons from American Indian Religious Traditions, Historical Experience, and Contemporary Life ; Heavenly Way and Humanly Doings: A Consideration of Chinese Man's Body Management During the Late Imperial Period ; Excess, Lack, and Harmony: Some Confucian and Taoist Approaches to Family Planning and Population Management - Tradition and the Modern Challenge ; Religion, State, and Population Growth ; Reproduction and Sexuality in a Changing World: Reaching Consensus ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Editor's Note on Japanese Buddhism ; Index

About the Author

Daniel C. Maguire is Professor of Religious Ethics at Marquette University and President of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics. Among his many published works are Death by Choice (1974, revised 1984); The Moral Choice (1978); A New American Justice (1980); The New Subversives: Anti-Americanism of the Religious Right (1982); The Moral Revolution (1986); On Moral
Grounds: the Art-Science of Ethics (1991); and The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity (1993).

Reviews

"The pan-religious scope of the book is its greatest asset, as it yields a full sense of the wide-ranging theoretical and practical concerns of each tradition."--Choice