"The two scholars offer [this volume] not as 'free-floating theists' but as Catholics retrieving a complex history of debate on the subject. . . . In tracing the changing Catholic views, the scholars defend the moral permissibility of abortion in the first trimester and offer a sexual ethic that focuses on issues of respect and agapic love rather than procreation, marriage, or even heterosexuality."--Nina C. Ayoub, <i>Note Bene, The Chronicle of Higher Education</i>

"Helpful for the ways in which it nuances the church's response to abortion, illuminating how the grounds of its opposition have changed from perversity to ontology. . . . A critical retrieval of Augustine and Aquinas supports their position that fetuses are not necessarily persons."--Donna M. McKenzie, <i>Religious Studies Review</i>

"A valuable book, which argues that a pro-choice position on early abortion is at least as consistent with the Roman Catholic tradition as the strict anti-abortion stance of contemporary Church leaders."--<i>Ethics</i>

"Dan Dombrowski and Robert Deltete's excellent book on a liberal Catholic defense of abortion definitively shows that the current teachings of the Roman Catholic Church--that all abortion is murder from the first moment of conception--is not in accord with Catholic tradition over more than eighteen centuries. A careful study of the Catholic tradition of such major theologians as Thomas Aquinas, in the context of modern embryology, in fact, supports the pro-choice position in the first two trimesters. The authors argue that, at the very least, the morality of abortion in the early months should be an open and not a closed question for Catholics."--Rosemary Radford Ruether, Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology, Northwestern University and author of <i>Women and Redemption: A Theological History and Sexism and God-Talk: A Theological History</i>