Human Embryo Adoption

Human Embryo Adoption
Author: Thomas V. Berg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2009-01-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780935372502

What should we do with the hundreds of thousands of frozen human embryos held in fertility clinics around the world? One solution would be adoption. Would such a course of action be moral? That is the question faced in this volume. The leading thinkers in Catholic bioethics divide into two opposing camps in a great debate over biotechnology, sexuality, marriage, and the right to life. Book jacket.

The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition

The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition
Author: Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2008-04-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1402062117

The strength of this collection of essays is its careful consideration, from a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tradition, of the practice of embryo adoption. It approaches the question in an open and reasonable way by allowing proponents of diverse positions within the tradition. This method both sheds a great deal of light on the particular question and at the same time introduces the reader to the relevant general principles that guide Catholic moral thought.

The Adoption of Frozen Embryos

The Adoption of Frozen Embryos
Author: Rev. Fr. Dr. Anthony Okechukwu Nnadi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-09-16
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1664130551

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas relating to the use of frozen human embryos. During an IVF process, after fertilization of the eggs, the embryos that are not needed immediately can be placed in the freezer to be preserved for future use. Regarding the fate of frozen human embryos, the possibilities include: i) donating them for stem cell research or for treatment of disease; ii) using them as a means for treatment of infertility; iii) permitting their destruction; iv) allowing them to thaw and die; v) allowing them to continue to stay in the freezer and vi) utilizing them in a form of prenatal adoption. As the book reveals, it is only the proposal to adopt the embryos that can be considered in terms of moral permissibility because the rest do not respect and protect the dignity, integrity and life of the human embryo. The book focuses on the proposal for prenatal adoption. The anthropological dimension of adoption reveals that the ethics of adoption is based on gift and acceptance and that adoption is a concrete manner of expressing love and solidarity. Thus, an abandoned child is received with love to be permanently a member of the adoptive family. The husband and wife who did not beget the abandoned child, generate him/her through the intrinsic generative power of their love. With this, it was demonstrated in this book that prenatal adoption is compatible with the dynamic of adoption. Prenatal adoption as Dignitas personae reveals is praiseworthy because it protects and saves human lives, but it presents various problems. Based on the declarations of the Catholic Magisterium, there is a prolific Catholic debate on the morality of prenatal adoption. Some agree it is morally permissible, while others disagree. Most arguments in the Catholic debate are centred on whether prenatal adoption separates the unitive and procreative meanings of marriage. This book proposes a reconsideration of prenatal adoption, sticking strictly to the Magisterial prudential judgement.

Conceiving Christian America

Conceiving Christian America
Author: Risa Cromer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1479818593

"An insider's look at a powerful social movement that aims to transform how we think about frozen human embryos, reproductive politics, and the future of the nation"--

Human Embryo Transfer

Human Embryo Transfer
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1985
Genre: Fertilization in vitro, Human
ISBN:

Dictionary of Global Bioethics

Dictionary of Global Bioethics
Author: Henk ten Have
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1063
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030541614

This Dictionary presents a broad range of topics relevant in present-day global bioethics. With more than 500 entries, this dictionary covers organizations working in the field of global bioethics, international documents concerning bioethics, personalities that have played a role in the development of global bioethics, as well as specific topics in the field.The book is not only useful for students and professionals in global health activities, but can also serve as a basic tool that explains relevant ethical notions and terms. The dictionary furthers the ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for difference and concern with what human beings- and specifically patients - have in common, regardless of their backgrounds, hometowns, religions, gender, etc. Global problems such as pandemic diseases, disasters, lack of care and medication, homelessness and displacement call for global responses.This book demonstrates that a moral vision of global health is necessary and it helps to quickly understand the basic ideas of global bioethics.

Children's Adjustment to Adoption

Children's Adjustment to Adoption
Author: David Brodzinsky
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1998-06-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780761905165

After an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives, the authors explore various theories that have addressed the issue of psychological risk associated with adoption.

Human Embryo Experimentation

Human Embryo Experimentation
Author: Roman Espejo
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2002
Genre: Embryonic stem cells
ISBN:

The potential of embryonic stem cell research to provide treatments for many serious and debilitating diseases has renewed the debate regarding the moral status of the human embryo. Charles Krauthammer, the National Institutes of Health, and others discuss the ethics of human embryo experimentation.

The Adoption of Frozen Embryos

The Adoption of Frozen Embryos
Author: REV Fr Nnadi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2020-09-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781664130562

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas relating to the use of frozen human embryos. During an IVF process, after fertilization of the eggs, the embryos that are not needed immediately can be placed in the freezer to be preserved for future use. Regarding the fate of frozen human embryos, the possibilities include: i) donating them for stem cell research or for treatment of disease; ii) using them as a means for treatment of infertility; iii) permitting their destruction; iv) allowing them to thaw and die; v) allowing them to continue to stay in the freezer and vi) utilizing them in a form of prenatal adoption. As the book reveals, it is only the proposal to adopt the embryos that can be considered in terms of moral permissibility because the rest do not respect and protect the dignity, integrity and life of the human embryo. The book focuses on the proposal for prenatal adoption. The anthropological dimension of adoption reveals that the ethics of adoption is based on gift and acceptance and that adoption is a concrete manner of expressing love and solidarity. Thus, an abandoned child is received with love to be permanently a member of the adoptive family. The husband and wife who did not beget the abandoned child, generate him/her through the intrinsic generative power of their love. With this, it was demonstrated in this book that prenatal adoption is compatible with the dynamic of adoption. Prenatal adoption as Dignitas personae reveals is praiseworthy because it protects and saves human lives, but it presents various problems. Based on the declarations of the Catholic Magisterium, there is a prolific Catholic debate on the morality of prenatal adoption. Some agree it is morally permissible, while others disagree. Most arguments in the Catholic debate are centred on whether prenatal adoption separates the unitive and procreative meanings of marriage. This book proposes a reconsideration of prenatal adoption, sticking strictly to the Magisterial prudential judgement.