期刊名称：Alpha Omega : rivista di filosofia e teologia dell'Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
出版年度：2005
卷号：VIII
期号：1
出版社：Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum
摘要：This article is the sequel to another which presented Grisez’s appraisal of contraception as an act against life, somewhat akin to deliberate homicide. The author intends to show what seem to be some weaknesses of Grisez’s arguments likening contraception to homicide. (1) You cannot speak of a ‘possible person’ as if she were a real person because strictly speaking (2) what exists is not a ‘possible child’ but the possibility of begetting a child. (3) Therefore, you cannot hate, reject or mistreat someone who does not exist. With regard to justice, the article notes that (4) justice is not the foundation of all morality, but is the essential ground for why homicide is evil. (5) Furthermore, if a new human being is engendered, in the moment of contraception it is not the person of the child – which does not even exist– that is unwanted, but its appearance at that moment or in those circumstances. Hence, someone who recurs to contraception is not taking the risk of committing a possible injustice, namely the risk of giving birth to an unwanted child. As far as the comparison with suicide goes, the article argues that (6) such an analogy is unfounded because contraception is not an attempt on someone’s life. (7) The point of ‘limited suicide’ has some suggestive and profitable elements, but only applies to the marital communion of the spouses. Lastly, (8) in deciding when a new life ‘should’ exist, contraception does not derogate from the Creator’s dominion any more that periodic abstinence. Rather, contraception is evil and a sin against God only if it can be shown that it is wrong to separate the procreative and the unitive aspects of sexual acts; that to deliberately render one’s sexual acts infertile is not a morally suitable way of living parenthood responsibly or of collaborating with God.
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