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Christian Bioethics 2008 14(2):217-225; doi:10.1093/cb/cbn014
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Christian Bioethics issue: Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy": Fifty Years Later [View the issue table of contents]

Contraception and Anesthesia: A Reply to James DuBois

Joseph Boyle

St Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada

Address correspondence to: Joseph Boyle, St Michael's College, 81 St Mary Street, Toronto, Canada ON M5S 1J4. E-mail: jboyle{at}chass.utoronto.ca


  Abstract

This is a response to James Dubois’ "Is anesthesia intrinsically wrong?" I do not address many of the claims in this article but only DuBois’ use of the moral evaluation of the medical use of anesthesia as a counter example to two lines of reasoning developed to defend the traditional Catholic prohibition of contraception. Elizabeth Anscombe's dialectical defense of this teaching does not imply that such a defense must logically apply to the use of anesthesia. John Finnis’ defense of this teaching on the basis of a natural law argument does not imply that consciousness is a basic human good.

Keywords: basic human goods, contraception, contra-natural actions, natural law


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