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Prof. Janet E. Smith's Published Articles



Abortion

"What's so bad about Sex Selection," Mosaic, Winter 2005

"Faith as a Preamble to Reason"
John Paul II: Witness to Truth (Proceedings from the Twenty-Third Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, September 22-23, 2000), ed. By Kenneth D. Whitehead (South Bend, IN; St. Augustine's Press, 2001) 43-71.

"A Reply to Gass"
International Philosophical Quarterly 33:2, #130 (June 1993) 234-238

"The Connection Between Contraception and Abortion," Homiletic and Pastoral Review 93:7 (April 1993) 10-18. In Spanish.

"Life Issues in a Pluralistic Culture"
Lay Witness 13:5 (January/February 1992) 1-5.

"Life Issues in a Pluralistic Society"
Church and State in America: Catholic Questions: Proceedings of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars 1991, (New York: St. John's University Press, 1992) 259-272.

"Abortion and Moral Character"
Chapter 33 in Doing and Being: Selected Readings in Moral Philosophy ed. by Joram Graf Haber, (New York, 1993). Also: "Moral Character and Abortion," Chapter 12 in Abortion: A New Generation of Catholic Responses ed. by Stephen J. Heaney (Braintree, MA: The Pope John Center, 1992)

"The Health of Nations: What America Can Learn from Other Countries about Abortion and Divorce"
Crisis (April 1990), 20-24. (A review of Mary Ann Glendon's Abortion and Divorce in the Western World)

"Abortion and Moral Development: Listening with Different Ears"
International Review 13: 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 1989) 237-266. Reprint of article in International Philosophical Quarterly 28:1 (March 1988) 31-51.

"Abortion and Socrates"
Canadian Catholic Review 6:3 (March 1988) 85-90.

"Abortion as a Feminist Concern"
Human Life Review, 4:3 (Summer 1978), pp. 62-76. Reprinted in The Zero People, edited by Jeffrey Hensely (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 1983), pp. 77-94. And excerpted in "Economics is Not a Justification for Abortion" in Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (St. Paul, Minnesota: Greenhaven Press, 1986) pp. 139-142.



Bioethics

"Conscience and Uncontoversial Truths"
May we insist that health care professionals violate their deepest beliefs?
The Priest, January 2009
 
"Sterilizations Reconsidered"
Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies
Medical Morality 4:1 (1998) 45-62

"The Pre-Eminence of Autonomy in Bioethics"
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics
edited by David Oderberg and Jacqueline A. Laing
London: McMillan Press, Ltd. (1997)

"Children: The Supreme Gift of Marriage"
Chapter 8 in Faith and Challenges to the Family
ed. Russell Smith
Braintree, MA; The Pope John Center (1994) 114-125

"Fetal Rights"
An entry in the Encyclopedia of Biblical and Christian Ethics
ed. by R.K. Harrison
Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, rev. ed (1992) 152-153

"Introduction to the Vatican Instruction on Bioethics"
The Gift of Life: Proceedings of a National Conference on the Vatican Instruction on Reproductive Ethics and Technology
ed. by Marilyn Wallace, R.S.M., Ph.D. & Thomas W. Hilgers, M.D.
Pope Paul VI Institute Press, (1990)
Creative Love: The Ethics of Human Reproduction
ed. by John Boyle, Christendom Press, (1989)
Reproductive Technologies, Marriage, and the Church Braintree, Mass.; The Pope John Center (1988) 13-28

"Ethical Aspects of Tissue and Organ 'Donation' by Preborn and Anencephalic Infants"
Critical Issues in Contemporary Health Care
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop for Bishops sponsored by the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research Center
(1989) 253-268

"The 'Many Faces of AIDS' and the Toleration of the Lesser Evil"
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter 11:3
(June 1988) pp. 5-10
The International Review of Natural Family Planning XII:1
(Spring 1988) 1-15

"The Vocation of Marriage and the Vatican Document on Bioethics"
International Review of Natural Family Planning (Fall 1987) pp. 195-210



Feminism & Women and the Family

"The Family as a School of Love"
Faith 33:2 (March-April 2001) 17-20

"Parenting: A School of Virtue"
Canticle, 5 (Summer 1999) 22-5

"John Paul II and the Family: The Family: a Communion of Persons"
A Celebration of the Thought of John Paul II (1998) 85-103
ed. by Gregory R. Beabout St. Louis

The Christian View of Sex: A Time For Apologetics, Not Apologies
Oxford Review January 1998; 29-37.
The Family in America 10:5 (May 1996) 1-7. Reprinted in New Oxford Review - January 1998; 29-37

"Pope John Paul II, Feminists, Women, and the Church"
Catholic Dossier 1:4 (November-December 1995) 29-33

"The Laywoman in the Church"
The Mind and Heart of the Church: Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute (Ignatius Press, 1992) 87-105
ed. by Ralph McInerny

"Feminism, Motherhood, and the Church"
The Catholic Woman: Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute
(Ignatius Press, 1991) 41-66
ed. by Ralph McInerny



Humanae Vitae

My Translation of Humanae Vitae Revised Version

"A Generation Later" Introduction to my translation of Humanae Vitae
A CD of this talk can be purchased from My Catholic Faith.

"Responsible Parenthood as Conscious Parenthood"
Familia et Vita, XIV:1 (2009) 144-156.

Why the Church Isn't Crazy on Contraception
The complaint that the Catholic Church is wrong to oppose the distribution of condoms to stop the spread of HIV is a bit puzzling, when you think about it. Catholic Exchange (2005).

"Good History, Bad Argument"
By Janet E. Smith.

A review of Leslie Woodcock Tentler's Catholics and Contraception: An American History in First Things (August/September 2005).

"Encyklika ,,Humanae Vitae" - Pokolenie Pozniej"
Dar ciala darem osoby - O przemilczanym wymiarze kryzysu wiezi malzenskiej (2005) pp. 137-150

"Humanae Vitae: Heroic, Deficient – or Both? Janet Smith Comments"
Latin Mass Magazine (Winter 2002) 18-19

"Promoting Humanae Vitae and Natural Family Planning"
Homiletic and Pastoral Review (July 2002) 28-32

"Contraception: It's about a Whole Lot More than Prevention"
Be Magazine (November-December 2000)

"Artificial vs. Natural?"
1998 First Things 88 (December 1998): 17–29

"The Philippine Church and Humanae Vitae"
Lay Witness 19:6 (July-August 1998) 34-36
Check your local library.

"Lost Love in the '90s"
Sacerdos, 5:15 (May-June 1998) 12-17

Entries in Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia Catholic of Catholic Doctrine
ed. by Russell Shaw (Huntington, IN: OSV 1998)
adultery; chastity; contraception; masturbation; natural family planning; premarital sex; prostitution; reproductive technologies; sexuality.

"Barnyard Morality"
America (August 13, 1994) pp. 12-14

"The Stale and Stalled Debate on Contraception"
Catholic World Report (November 1993) 54-9

"The Moral Use of Natural Family Planning"
in Why Humanae Vitae was Right:
A Reader ed. by Janet E. Smith, Ph.D
Published by Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898704332
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993

"The Importance of the Concept of Munus to the Understanding of Humanae Vitae"
Trust the Truth: A Symposium on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae, The Pope John Center (1992)

"Natural Law: Does It Evaluate Choices or Acts?"
American Journal of Jurisprudence 36 (1991) 171-201. (a version of Appendix 4 of my book Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later)

"The Munus of Transmitting Human Life: A New Approach to Humanae Vitae"
The Thomist 54:3, July 1990, 385-427
Check your local library.

"The Importance of the Concept of Munus to Understanding Humanae Vitae"
Humanae Vitae: 20 Anni Dopo Milano: Edizioni Ares (1989)
671-690 shortened version

"Humanae Vitae: A Hidden Treasure"
The Family (November, 1988) 28-30.

"Humanae Vitae: A Prophetic Document?"
Respect Life, the annual Respect Life publication for the U.S. Bishops; Reprinted in Crisis 6:8 (September 1988) 30-35

"Humanae Vitae: Twenty Years Later"
Crisis 6:6 (June 1988). 14-21

"Pope John Paul II and Humanae Vitae"
International Review of Natural Family Planning 10:2 (Summer 1986) 95-112.

"Contraception: Why Not" Transcript
Video & Audio tape available from:
My Catholic Faith
These materials are also available in multiple languages.

Same-Sex Marriage and Its Relation With Contraception
Janet E. Smith Links Rejection of "Humanae Vitae" to Acceptance of Homosexuality

"The Wild and the Tame"
Human Life International Newsletter


Miscellaneous Articles

Are there limits to Voyeurism?
Saint Austin Review, October 2001



Moral Philosophy

"The common-sense case against same sex unions"
Our Sunday Visitor, June 21, 2009

"Natural Sex is Best"
Lutheran Forum, Summer, 2005. 20-30

Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics
by Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J, Notre Dame Indiana, 2000, 214 pp. 

Are Natural and Unnatural Appetites Equally Controllable? A Response to Jensen's "Is Continence Enough"
Christian Bioethics 10:1-12, 2004

"Come and See"
Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas:  Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology ed. by Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering (The Catholic University of America Press:  2005) 194-211.

"Reclaiming or Rewriting the Tradition?"
Discussion article of Jean Porter's Natural and Divine Law
ACPQ 75-4 (2001), 601-11

"Natural Law and Sexual Ethics"
Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law
(ISI Books 2000) 193-218
ed. by Edward B. McLean.

"Moral Terminology and Proportionalism"
Recovering Nature : Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame Press, 1999) 127-46
ed. by Thomas Hibbs and John O'Callaghan

"Aquinas's Natural Law Theory and Homosexuality"
Homosexuality and American Public Life
(Dallas, TX, Spence, 1999) 129-40
ed. by Christopher Wolfe

"Veritatis Splendor," Proportionalism, and Contraception"
Irish Theological Quarterly 63: 4 (1998) 307-26

"Natural Law and Personalism in Veritatis Splendor"
John Paul II and Moral Theology: Readings in Moral Theology: No 10
(Paulist Press, 1998) 67-84
ed. by Charles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick, S. J.
Reprint of Chapter 13
Veritatis Splendor: American Responses
ed. by Michael E. Allsopp and John J. O'Keefe
(Kansas City, MO.; Sheed and Ward 1995) 194-207

"Rights, the Person and Conscience in the Catechism"
Dossier 3:1 (January-February 1997) 29-37

"The Moral Vision of the Catechism"
Evangelizing for the Third Millennium: The Maynooth Conference on the New Catechism
May 1996, (Dublin: Veritatis Publications, 1997) 96-114
ed. by Maurice Hogan SSC and Thomas J. Norris

"Moral Methodologies: Proportionalism"
Ethics and Medics 19:6 (June 1994) pp. 1-3

"Natural Law in Veritatis Splendor"
L'Osservatore Romano 1 (January 5, 1994) p. 10

"Veritatis Splendor"
Commonweal (October 22, 1993) 14-15

"Can Virtue be in the Service of Bad Acts?: A Response to Philippa Foot"
The New Scholasticism, 58:3 (Summer 1984) pp. 357-373
Check your local library.



Plato

"Plato's use of Myth in the Education of the Philosophic Man"
Phoenix: Classical Quarterly of the University of Toronto 40 (March 1986) 20-34.

"Plato's Myths as 'Likely Accounts,' Worthy of Belief"
Apeiron 19 (1985) pp. 24-42.

"The Hamartia of Misologia"
Hamartia, edited by Donald V. Stump, James A. Arieti, Lloyd Gerson, Elenore Stump (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1983), pp. 73-96.
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