Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #220 : Evaluating Medical Use of Marijuana During Pregnancy

Cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation raises the prospect of adversely affecting not only neurodevelopment, but also subsequent neuropsychiatric, behavioral and executive functioning of the child.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2024Pregnancy Complications, Parenting, Disabilities and the Disabled, Alternative Medicine

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #216 : Surrogacy and Child Trafficking

Surrogacy involves a form of “trafficking” of children, implying that children are being bought and sold, treated as property and often transported across international borders, which, all in all, sums up many contemporary aspects of surrogacy.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 29, 2024In Vitro Fertilization, Parenting, Surrogacy, Infertility

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 211 : Setting a Moral Vision as Parents

Setting a moral vision for one's children can be a Herculean task requiring enormous dedication.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 28, 2023Imposing Our Beliefs, Parenting, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 210 : Suicidal Fears and Authentic Accompaniment

We need to care for them in a more truthful way — accompanying, supporting, and helping them to address underlying issues — so they can begin to find real healing.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 31, 2023Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Parenting, Suffering

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 192 : What Young People Could Most Profit From Hearing About Marriage

The commitments we make and faithfully fulfill are a source of stability and strength.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2021Marriage, Parenting, Premarital Sex

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 191 : Challenging the Establishment on Childhood Gender Transitions

Vulnerable young people, caught up in the pressure of the moment, have too easily been drawn into life-altering pathways involving medications and scalpels with their frequently irreversible effects.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 28, 2021Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation, Medical Profession — Ethics and Pastoral-Spiritual, Parenting, Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 175: Christian Girls and Abortion

Mothers and fathers may have never discussed the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy to let their children know ahead of time that, even if they act contrary to their advice and conceive a child, they will still be there for them.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2020Abortion, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Premarital Sex, Sex Education, Cooperation in Evil

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 168: Securing Authentic Children's Rights

Notwithstanding rapidly changing social mores, a truly civilized society will never prioritize the desires of adults ahead of the innate rights of vulnerable children.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2019Artificial Insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, Surrogacy, Parenting, Same Sex Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 154: Cowboys, Infertility and Deeper Moral Questions

…we realize how the procreation of our own children is meant to involve a strict exclusivity between husband and wife.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2018Artificial Insemination, Embryos, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Parenting, Banking of Sperm and Eggs

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 153: The Wrong-Headedness of “Wrongful Birth” Lawsuits

At its core, the idea of a ‘wrongful birth’ claim is unreasonable and ethically incoherent.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2018Law and Ethics, Abortion, Parenting, Disabilities and the Disabled, Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 147: Sex in Accord with Reason

The manner in which the [sexual] act takes place and the details surrounding it are essential to determining whether the act occurs in an authentically human way...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2017Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Sex Education, Masturbation, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 139: Thinking Through the Temptation of Cohabitation

Sex, of course, has a certain power all its own, and both sides may be tempted to play with it in ways that are potentially damaging, all the more so when they decide to cohabit.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2017Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 134: Talking to Kids About Porn & Human Sexuality

...the home setting needs to differ from the outside world, serving as an oasis and a protected environment for children.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2016Pornography, Parenting, Sex Education, Universal Morality, Human Sexuality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 125: Parents and "Sex Ed"

Parents are in the unique position of being able to model for their children a healthy example of sexual integration, generosity, and self-mastery within marriage.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2015Sex Education, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 118: Pondering the Implications of 3 Parent Embryos

It should be obvious how any approach that weakens or casts into question the integral connection between parents and their offspring will raise grave ethical concerns.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2015Embryos, Genetics and Genome Editing, Mitochondrial Diseases, In Vitro Fertilization, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 093: Facing the Downstream Effects of Same-Sex Parenting

A compassionate society seeks to help and assist orphaned children, but no reasonable society intentionally deprives those children of a mother or a father.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2013Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Parenting, Same Sex Parenting, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 078: Unconditional Parental Love

A husband and wife are called to give themselves to each other completely and unreservedly, and to accept each other unconditionally in the marital embrace. Every child of theirs, whether entering the world with a handicap or not, is an expression and fruit of themselves and their acceptance of each other.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2011Parenting, Prenatal Testing, Eugenics, Disabilities and the Disabled

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 056: How Men Are Harmed by Abortion

What is not widely acknowledged is that men oftentimes suffer emotionally and spiritually from their loss. It seems fair to say that men are not generally encouraged to acknowledge their emotions around this issue – whether relief, grief, anger, or resentment.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 28, 2010Abortion, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 045: Parental Desires, Children and IVF

Marital acts are a way of ‘petitioning the Giver for his gifts.’ By insisting on or demanding the gift (through in vitro fertilization), the child is no longer that ‘gift’ but a kind of entitlement or project to be realized.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2009Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, Parenting

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 036: Half Human, Half Animal?

…only the most cursory ethical reflection is needed to grasp the moral problem with creating human offspring in laboratories, using an admixture of cow components, in order to scientifically cannibalize them.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2008Stem Cell Research, Animal-Human Hybrids and Chimeras, Cloning, Embryos, Parenting

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