Church Documents on Life Issues

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Pon_Arms1.jpg Final Declaration by the 14th General Assembly ("Christian conscience in support of the right to life"), Pontifical Academy for Life, 2007. Also discusses emergency contraception.
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgReport by H.E. Mons. Elio Sgreccia on the occasion of the General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy For Life on the theme: "Quality of Life and the Ethics of Health," 2005.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpg Address of Pope John Paul II to the Participants in the International Congress on “Life- Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas,” 2004.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpg Joint Statement of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and the Pontifical Academy for Life on the Vegetative State, 2004.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgFinal Communiqué on "The dignity of human procreation and reproductive technologies. Anthropological and ethical aspects,” Xth General Assembly, Pontifical Academy for Life, 2004.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgFinal Communiqué on the "Ethics of Biomedical Research. For a Christian Vision," Ixth General Assembly, Pontifical Academy for Life, 2003.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgIntervention by H. E. Msgr. Elio Sgreccia on the occasion of the Resolution of the European Parliament on "Health, Sexual and Reproductive Right," 2002. (French only)
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgPronouncement on the "morning after" pill, Pontifical Academy for Life, 2000.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgReclaim Every Human Being’s Right to Life: Address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, by Pope John Paul II, 1997.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgOn Combating Abortion and Euthanasia: Letter to the Bishops of the World by Pope John Paul II, 1991.
 
 
Pon_Arms1.jpgDonum Vitae (the gift of life):
Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1987.