Human Fertility and Current Controversies (Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk) 4/22/24
Release Date: 04/22/2024
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info_outlineOn 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
The National Catholic Bioethics Center
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
Adoption: Prayer and Educational Resources | USCCB
The Concentration Can: When Does Human Life Begin? an Eminent Geneticist Testifies: Lejeune, Jerome
The Gianna Center | Catholic Health
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