Medicine and Morals: Your Jewish Guide Through Life's Tough Decisions
Medicine and Morals is your chance to get real with the subject of medical ethics, discuss actual case histories, and get a sense of direction to weather the toughest challenges you’ll ever face.
Lesson 4: New Beginnings - The Ethics of Reproductive Technologies Many couples struggle with infertility. In their efforts to bear a child, they are often cast into the complicated ethical web of the new reproductive technologies, many of which call into question the very definition of a parent. In the age of sperm donation, egg donation, and surrogacy, can a child have more than two parents? How does Judaism look at “designer babies”? Can we pre-select the gender of the child to match parent preferences or to prevent genetic illnesses? How far must one go in the quest for biological children, and what recourse is there for those who are unable to bear children of their own?
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