Human embryo adoption : biotechnology, marriage, and the right to life / edited by Thomas V. Berg and Edward J. Furton ; with a foreword by Robert P. George.

Date:
[2006], ©2006
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Philadelphia : National Catholic Bioethics Center ; Thornwood, N. Y : Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, [2006], ©2006.

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xiii, 347 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Virtuous parenting and orphaned embryos / John Berkman -- Some moral contraindications to embryo adoption / Tadeusz Pacholczyk -- Becoming pregnant or becoming a mother? Embryo transfer with and without a prior maternal relationship / Helen Watt -- The embryo rescue debate: impregnating women, ectogenesis, and restoration from suspended animation / Nicholas Tonti-Filippini -- On the Catholic vision of conjugal love and the morality of embryo transfer / Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriao -- The object of the acting woman in embryo rescue / William E. May -- The nuptial womb: on the moral significance of being "with child" / Christopher Oleson -- A defense by analogy of heterologous embryo transfer / E. Christian Brugger -- Heterologous embryo transfer and the meaning of becoming a mother / Thomas D. Williams -- The female act of allowing an intromission of impregnating kind / Mary Geach -- The moral licitness of adopting frozen embryos, with answers to objections / Monica Lopez Barahona and Salvador Antuano Alea -- Our moral obligation to the abandoned embryo / Peter F. Ryan.

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  • 9780935372502
  • 0935372504