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The Pro-Child Movement: Adopting A Compassionate Strategy, Jessica Seman
The Pro-Child Movement: Adopting A Compassionate Strategy, Jessica Seman
CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has become the most common assisted reproductive technique in the United States, accounting for 48,000 births in one recent year alone. This has also given birth to a silent generation of over 500,000 human embryos, waiting in cryopreservation for their chance at birth (Grabill, 2006). For the Christian who believes that conception marks the beginning of human life, the fact of half a million frozen persons creates an ethical challenge of enormous proportion. Besides the obvious solution of not contributing to the problem (by freezing or discarding one’s own embryos), embryo adoption is often presented as …
Embryo Adoption: An Opportunity For Life, Carla Gaines
Embryo Adoption: An Opportunity For Life, Carla Gaines
CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics
The world began a new revolution during the second half of the twentieth century. This revolution centered not on industry, but on biotechnology. Researchers unlocked the mysteries of procreation and genetics. The promise of science seduced common sense about the value of human life. Postmodern pluralism embraced the modernist idea of utopia through technology at the cost of the helpless.
Yet civilization is no closer to utopia than it was 50 years ago. Instead, we debate a whole host of new ethical dilemmas. Several debates focus on the creation, storage and eventual destiny of millions of human embryos. Hundreds of …