At last, a comprehensive collection of essays that examines and
advances ethical evaluations of the controversial and increasingly
popular practice of embryo adoption. In the United States alone,
400,000 frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization exist but
are no longer desired for that purpose. What are we morally obliged
or permitted to do about these a oesparea embryos? More of their
genetic parents are considering donating these embryos to others to
gestate and raise. This practice is politically volatile (figuring
in debates about embryonic stem cells) and medically and morally
complex. At the present time within the Roman Catholic Church there
is no official teaching on embryo adoption. Catholic ethical
analyses grapple with the way embryo adoption comports with respect
for embryonic human life yet challenges Catholic moral critiques of
assisted reproductive technologies.
This volume is the first to bring together leading philosophers
and theologians to engage Catholic debates about embryo adoption in
an interactive format. The editors, a philosopher bioethicist and a
moral theologian, provide a helpful overview of the practice and
the arguments surrounding embryo adoption. They engage neglected
Catholic ethical resources and issues to advance the current debate
and chart new directions in Catholic moral thinking about this
intriguing practice. The volume also includes a description of
embryo adoption from a physician practitioner along with
reflections from a couple who successfully adopted an embryo.
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