Religious Ethics of Reproductive Dignity
A survey of the practical implications on people’s reproductive lives shaped by Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish ethical frameworks.
A survey of the practical implications on people’s reproductive lives shaped by Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish ethical frameworks.
In this course we’ll take a broad look at the ethics and theology of adoption and assisted reproductive technologies like IVF and third-party reproduction.
A personal essay about how transracial adoption can create deep, lifelong trauma by severing adoptees from their culture, family, and racial identity.
A web of consultants, facilitators and other middlemen have made private adoption a lucrative business. But the profit motives can leave mothers feeling coerced, and, nationwide, a lack of regulation creates opportunities for exploitation.
It is crucial to be vigilant against misleading terminology, such as “Restorative Reproductive Medicine” (RRM) and “Ethical IVF,” Which can be used to promote ideologically driven restrictions that could limit patient care.
ASRM is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of reproductive medicine.
Adoption is embraced in the Marshall Islands, but in the Ozarks, it means something very different. The tragic consequences of cultural misunderstanding.