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

IVF involves at least two major moral problems —the ‘collateral damage problem’ and the ‘intrinsic problem.

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

Through IVF, husband and wife use their own (or even another person’s) sex cells to become “donors”, while constructing their own offspring through a kind of programmed project, with the marital act no longer an essential part of the equation.

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

Some humanitarian tragedies occur quietly and “in the background,” only gradually coming to light years or decades after serious harm has already occurred...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2016Embryos, Frozen Embryos

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 075: Human Stockpiling

Not much reflection is needed to realize the serious injustice involved in forcefully ‘crystallizing’ another human being. The freezing and thawing process itself subjects embryonic humans to significant risk, and up to fifty percent of embryos do not survive the process.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2011Embryos, Frozen Embryos

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

…either one discards the embryos or one destroys them in the laboratory to obtain miraculous cures for diseases. An important third option is often not even mentioned: namely, that we continue to store the embryos in their current, frozen state as part of our moral duty to care for our own offspring.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2010Embryos, Frozen Embryos

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

In fact, however, the decision to continue cryopreserving an embryo in liquid nitrogen is not likely an instance of using extraordinary means, since the burden and costs associated with taking care of embryonic children in this way are actually minimal.

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 042: Germany and Italy Have Done It — Shouldn’t We?

In the United States today, we urgently need Embryo Protection Laws.

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

…embryos are unfamiliar to us, so that we may react differently to them than we would to a fully formed baby. But it should also serve to remind us how embryos are not supposed to be familiar to us, and are not supposed to be in freezers in the first place, but only within the safe harbor of their mother’s womb.

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 026: Ethical Blind Spots, Complacency & Nazism

There is a certain banality about evil. It doesn't necessarily present itself in a monstrous or dramatic way. It can take the shape of simple conformity to what everyone else is doing, to what the leadership says is right, to what the neighbors are doing...

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

...parents must be especially attentive to never hand over their embryonic children who are still frozen to researchers eager to extract their stem cells.

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

IVF violates this design by replacing that love-giving act with an act of production, whereby we manufacture our own children in petri dishes and test tubes, as if they were products or objects to be manhandled at will.

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