All Posts Tagged With: "IVF"
Does God Want Us to Genetically Improve Our Children?
Hold onto your socks, it’s time to think calmly about a topic that quickly, and sometimes frighteningly, blurs the line between science and science fiction: directed evolution — altering our genetic makeup in ways that can be passed down to future generations.
Want to hear the scary part first? Consider that in a matter of years, [...]
Is the Abortion Debate Obsolete? Q+A with Liza Mundy
The complex ethical issues of assisted reproduction explored in reporter Liza Mundy’s new book, Everything Conceivable, (and reviewed earlier this week on this site) can make the abortion debate look outdated. ReligionWriter called up Mundy to discuss the new meanings of “reproductive choice,” the voice of religious leaders in answering these ethical questions, and what [...]
1Aug2007 | Andrea Useem | 2 comments | ContinuedFertility Medicine: Vexing Moral Questions You’ve Never Even Thought Of
If you’re looking for a summer-reading book that will both keep you up late at night turning pages and give you a shopping-list-long set of often-heartbreaking moral questions to ponder, then run don’t walk to get Liza Mundy’s recent book, Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women and the World.
While reporters have covered [...]