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 163: The Welcome Outreach of Perinatal Hospice

This approach seeks to set up a particular supportive environment in which all the members of the family can receive the child following delivery, hold and name the newborn, and fully acknowledge his or her brief but meaningful life.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2019Abortion, Death and Dying, Prenatal Testing, Pain Management-Palliative Care and Hospice, Disabilities and the Disabled, End-of-Life Issues, Pregnancy Complications

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 145: Considering the Options for Infertile Couples

It can be helpful to keep in mind a particular “rule of thumb” for determining whether a procedure is morally acceptable: treatments that assist the marital act are permissible, while those that replace, or substitute for, the marital act raise serious moral objections.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2017Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, Artificial Insemination, Intrauterine Insemination, Marriage, Natural Family Planning (NFP), Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 104: Difficult Moral Decisions in Brain Death and Pregnancy

Wouldn’t a mother, carrying a child in her womb, and having expended so much effort to foster that new life, naturally want to offer her child this opportunity to live, even after her own death?

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 28, 2014Brain Death, Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 102: Ethical Directives and the Care of Pregnant Women in Catholic Hospitals

The application of Catholic moral teaching to this issue is therefore directed toward two important and specific ends: first, the complete avoidance of directly killing the child, and, second, the preservation of the lives of both mother and child to the extent possible under the circumstances.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2013Abortion, Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 061: Difficult Pregnancies, Precarious Choices, and the Absolute Value of Innocent Lives

By always repudiating the direct killing of the innocent, and acknowledging that this represents an exceptionless norm, we set in place the framework to safeguard human dignity at its root.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2010Abortion, Universal Morality, Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 052: When Pregnancy Goes Awry

Yet the difference in how the baby dies is, in fact, critical. There is always a difference between killing someone directly and allowing someone to die of indirect causes.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2009Ectopic Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 043: “A Future Pregnancy Would Be Too Risky…”

...refusing to compromise our sexual faculties through vasectomies or tubal ligations, promotes important personal virtues within marriage and properly respects the God-given and life-giving designs of our own bodies.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2009Birth Control and Contraception, Sterilization, Human Sexuality, Natural Family Planning (NFP), Pregnancy Complications

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