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Human Fertility and Current Controversies (Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk) 4/22/24

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Release Date: 04/22/2024

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On this special podcast-extended episode welcome back Fr. Tad of the National Catholic Bioethics Center to dive deep in discussion of controversial topics of human fertility, IVF, and the concept of embryo adoption. What are the moral issues involved in these beginning of life processes, and at this point what can be done for the children left in these cryogenic orphanages?

 

Show Notes

Father Tad’s Website

The National Catholic Bioethics Center

Making Sense of Bioethics

FatherTad.com | Lectures

Father Tad — The Struggle of Infertility

Father Tad — Why is IVF Wrong?

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #217 : Poking the Hornet’s Nest of IVF

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #216 : Surrogacy and Child Trafficking

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 006: Babies in Test Tubes

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 013: Thawing the Frozen Embryo Myths

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 035: Fire in the Clinic!

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 048: What Should We Do with the Frozen Embryos?

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 066: Humans in "Frozen Orphanages"

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 137: Orphans in Liquid Nitrogen

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 165: It’s Not Just About the Frozen Embryos

Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 

The Frozen Embryo Problem 

Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day 

Adoption: Prayer and Educational Resources | USCCB

The Concentration Can: When Does Human Life Begin? an Eminent Geneticist Testifies: Lejeune, Jerome

Pope Paul VI Institute

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