Cover
Copyright Information
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
General Introduction
1. The Actual Problem
2. The Main Argument
3. Objectives and Doctrinal Relevance of This Project
4. Methodology and Delimitation of the Work
5. Organization of Chapters
Chapter One The Magisterium and Some Theological Opinions on Artificial Procreation
Introduction
A. Magisterial Teachings on Artificial Procreation Prior to Donum Vitae
1.1. The Teaching of Pius XI: Casti Connubii, 31 December 1930

1.2. The Teaching of Pius XII
1.2.1. Address to the International Congress of Catholic Medical Doctors, 29 September 1949
1.2.2. Allocution to the Italian Catholic Union of Midwives, 29 October 1951
1.2.3. Allocution to Participants at the Second World Congress on Infertility and Sterility, 19 May 1956
1.2.4. Allocution to Participants at the Seventh International Congress of Haematology, 12 September 1958
1.3. The Teaching of Paul VI: Humanae Vitae, 25 July 1968
1.4. Opinions of Some Theologians
B. An Overview of the Instruction Donum Vitae

1.1. The Instruction's Three Lines of Argument against Artificial Fertilization
1.1.1. The Principle of Inseparability of the Conjugal Act
1.1.2. The "Language of the Body" Argument
1.1.3. The "Begotten-Not-Made" Argument
1.2. Moral Principles of Donum Vitae
1.2.1. The Life of the Human Being
1.2.2. Marriage as the Only Licit Context for Procreation
1.2.3. The Dignity of Human Procreation
1.2.4. Biomedical Technology as a Gift in the Service of Life
1.2.5. Donum Vitae on the Simple Case IVF-ET
1.2.6. Relationship between Moral and Civil Law

Synthesis of the Chapter
Chapter Two Moral-Theological Arguments in Favor of the Simple Case of Homologous IVF-ET
Introduction
A. The Critique of Donum Vitae
1.1. An Overview of Its Argumentation against the Instruction
1.2. Narrowness in Its Range of Consultation
1.3. The Alleged Physicalism or Biologism of Donum Vitae
1.3.1 Adequate Consideration of the Human Person
1.3.2 Hierarchy of Values of the Human Person
1.3.3 The Body as Instrument of the Human Person
1.4. Inadequate Use of Its Natural Law Methodology
1.5. Summary

B. On the Conjugal Act and Its Understanding by the Dissenting Theologians
1.1. An Overview
1.2. On the Principle of Totality and the Conjugal Act
1.3. On the Moral Object and the Principle of Inseparability of the Conjugal Act
1.4. On the Doctrine of Double Effect and the Conjugal Act
1.5. Summary
C. Begotten-not-Made
1.1. An Overview
1.2. The Simple Case IVF-ET as Life Enhancing
1.3. The Simple Case IVF-ET Technology Accords with Human Dignity
1.4. The Simple Case as an Imperfect Act Not an Immoral Act
1.5. Summary
Synthesis of the Chapter