The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health & Ethics
About the Author of Sacred Choices
Dr. Daniel C Maguire
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C. Maguire is a Professor of Moral Theological Ethics at Marquette University,
a Catholic, Jesuit Institution and President of the Religious Consultation on
Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics. Dr. Maguire has a degree in Sacred
Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, one of the world’s
major Catholic universities. He is the author of Sacred Choices: The Right to
Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions, Fortress Press, 2001.
Dr. Maguire has written over 150 articles printed in publications such as The New York Times, Atlantic, USA Today, The Crisis: Journal of the NAACP, etc. The articles include "Different but Equal: A Moral Assessment of the Woman's Liberation", "The Psychotherapist as Moralist", "The Freedom to Die", "Sex and Ethical Methodology", "The New Look of Death" and "Affirmative Action at Bay".
Of his many honors, he was listed by Ms. Magazine as one of the "40 male heroes of the past decade, men who took chances and made a difference", 1982. His book, The Moral Choice, won "Best Scholarly Book of the Year, 1978. The University of Notre Dame named Maguire one of the ten best teachers, 1983-1984.
His published books include:
Moral Absolutes and the Magisterium, 1970;
The Moral Choice, 1975;
A New American Justice: Ending the White Male Monopolies, 1980;
The New Subversives: Anti-Americanism of the Religious Right, 1982;
The Moral Revolution, 1986;
On Moral Grounds: The Art/Science of Ethics, 1991;
The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity, 1993;
Sacred Energies, 2000;
What Men Owe Women, 2000; Sacred Choices, 2001;
Sacred Rights, 2003.
