The patriarch of medical ethics explains why some accepted ethical values need to catch up with the science of human reproduction and why newer reproductive methods can be more "natural" and humane than those they replace.

The ethics of genetic control: Ending reproductive roulette

Medical Books

Joseph Fletcher

Medicine

Anchor Press

<p>This book is the transcript of a public dialogue between Professor Joseph Fletcher and Dr. John Warwick Montgomery at San Diego State College on February 11, 1971.</p>

Situation Ethics: True or False

Politics & Social Sciences

John Warwick Montgomery

Philosophy

Bethany Fellowship, Inc.

Joseph Fletcher says: . . . Whether we ought to follow a moral principle or not would always depend upon the situation. . . . In some situations unmarried love could be infinitely more moral than married unlove. Lying could be more Christian than telling the truth. . . stealing could be better than respective private property . . .no action is good or right of itself. It depends on whether it hurts or helps people. . . .There are no normative moral principles whatsoever which are intrinsically valid or universally obliging. We may not absolutize the norms of human conduct. . . . Love is the highest good and the first-order value, the primary consideration to which in every act . . .we should be prepared to sidetrack or subordinate other value considerations of right and wrong. MONTGOMERY

Situation Ethics

Canadian Institute for Law, Theology & Public Policy, Inc.

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