Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #214 : Genetic Privacy- Should Law Enforcement Have Access to Your Newborn’s Blood?

Our DNA and our genetic code contains important personal information about us. This means that our individual ‘bio-informatics’ should not be used or brokered by others without our awareness and consent.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 31, 2023Informed Consent

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 195 : Sexual Atoms and Molecules

Sex touches us at a deeper level than other activities, binding us to another. It speaks a language not of autonomy, but of communion and enduring self-gift.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2021Informed Consent, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 167: The Corpse Raiders

When it comes to extracting cells or organs from the corpse of a deceased child at an abortion clinic, however, these ethical requirements for consent cannot legitimately be satisfied.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 30, 2019Abortion, Fetal Tissue Harvesting, Informed Consent, Organ Donation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 122: Consenting to the Unconscionable

…the use of tissues and organs from direct abortions raises significant moral concerns, even if the mother’s signature may have been sought and obtained.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2015Fetal Tissue Harvesting, Informed Consent, Respect for the Remains of the Dead, Research

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 059: Procuring Organs “Over My Dead Body?”

State-facilitated salvaging of organs in the absence of explicit consent undercuts the essential character of organ donations as a gift.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 30, 2010Informed Consent, Law and Ethics, Organ Donation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 017: Bodies in Plastic

... some people find the exhibit ‘edgy’, causing more than a tinge of discomfort, and they wonder whether there aren’t ethical concerns associated with putting the human body on display in this way.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2006Respect for the Remains of the Dead, Informed Consent, Body Worlds Exhibit

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