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Notes to Chapter Two
1. Joseph Fletcher, The Ethics of Genetic Control (Garden City, N.Y.:
Anchor Press, 1974).
2. Ibid., pp.15, 16.
3. Ibid., pp.119, 121.
4. This approach was argued by Fletcher in his earlier work, Situation Ethics: The New
Morality (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1966).
5. Fletcher, Ethics of Genetic Control, p.135.
6. Ibid., p.137.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p.139.
9. Ibid., pp.138, 139.
10. Ibid., p.142. For similar conclusions, cf. Garrett Hardin, Mandatory Motherhood
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1974).
11. Norman Geisler, Ethics: Alternatives and Issues (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
1971). Other writers who hold the "indications" position include Daniel
Callahan, Abortion: Law, Choice, and Morality (New York: Macmillan, 1970); R.F.R.
Gardner, Abortion: The Personal Dilemma (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell, 1974;
Harmon L. Smith, Ethics and the New Medicine (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970).
12. Geisler, Ethics, p.218.
13. The rather complicated questions of translation and interpretation surrounding Exodus
21:22-25 are discussed in some detail in chapter four of this volume. Geisler apparently
has not taken fully into account other possible interpretations of this text.
14. Geisler, Ethics, p.118.
15. Ibid., p.219.
16. Ibid., p.220.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p.221.
19. Ibid., p.222. Evidently, Geisler no longer considers Downs Syndrome
("Mongolism") a justification for abortion.
20. Ibid., p.225.
21. Ibid., p.222.
22. Ibid., p.222,223.
23. Ibid., p.223.
24. Ibid., p.224.
25. Ibid., p.225.
26. Ibid., p.226.
27. Harold O.J. Brown, Death Before Birth (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1977). Other
evangelicals holding this general position include Clifford E. Bajema, Abortion and the
Meaning of Personhood (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974); C. Everett Koop, The Right to
Live: the Right to Die (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1976); C.C. Ryrie, You Mean the
Bible Teaches That . . . (Chicago: Moody Press, 1974); Meredith G. Kline, "Lex
Talionis and the Human Fetus," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
20, no.3 (1977): 193-202; Donald Shoemaker, Abortion, the Bible, and the Christian
(Cincinnati: Hayes, 1976); Bruce Waltke, "Reflections from the Old Testament on
Abortion," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 19, no.1 (1976):
5-13. For an excellent exegetical study, cf. John Frame et al., "Report of the
Committe to Study the Matter of Abortion," Agenda, 38th General Assembly, Orthodox
Presbyterian Church, 1971, pp.90-110.
This position is also the official position of the Roman Catholic Church. See John T.
Noonan, ed., The Morality of Abortion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970),
pp.1-39; John Connery, Abortion: The Development of the Roman Catholic Perspective
(Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1977).
Also representative of this point of view are Baruch Brody, Abortion and the Sancity of
Life (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975); Thomas W. Hilgers and Dennis J. Horan, eds., Abortion
and Social Justice (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1972); Paul Ramsey, "The Sanctity
of Life: In the First of It," Dublin Review 241 (1967-68): 3-23; Dr. and Mrs.
J.C. Willke, Handbook on Abortion (Cincinnati: Hayes, 1975).
28. Brown, Death Before Birth, p.119.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., p.120.
31. Ibid., p.122.
32. Ibid., p.126.
33. Ibid., p.127. Some of the criticisms raised against this way of reading the texts,
e.g., the objection that such a reading does not take into account the metaphorical
language of the Psalms, will be examined in chapter four of this volume.
34. Cited in ibid., p.134.
35. Ibid., p.135.
36. Ibid., p.136.
37. Ibid., pp.146, 147.
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