Sacred Rights: the Case for Contraception and Abortion in World

Sacred Rights: the Case for Contraception and Abortion in World

Daniel C. Maguire

OxUnPress | 2003 | ISBN: 0195160002 0195160010 0195347811 128070408X | 304 pages | PDF | 16 MB

The purpose of this book is to attempt to change international discourse on family planning and to rescue this debate from superficial sloganeering by drawing on the moral stores of the world's major and indigenous religions. This book presents the work of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. 
In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. 
As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. These authors show that the paramaters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated and nuanced than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. 

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

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