Church Documents on Life Issues
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.
Report 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.
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.
Joint Statement of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations and the Pontifical Academy for Life on the Vegetative State, 2004.
Final Communiqué on "The dignity of human procreation and reproductive technologies. Anthropological and ethical aspects,” Xth General Assembly, Pontifical Academy for Life, 2004.
Final Communiqué on the "Ethics of Biomedical Research. For a Christian Vision," Ixth General Assembly, Pontifical Academy for Life, 2003.
Intervention 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)
Pronouncement on the "morning after" pill, Pontifical Academy for Life, 2000.
Reclaim Every Human Being’s Right to Life: Address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, by Pope John Paul II, 1997.
On Combating Abortion and Euthanasia: Letter to the Bishops of the World by Pope John Paul II, 1991.
Donum 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.