See these resources for the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 6th Ed. Image Credit: National Cancer Institute. “Child Treated in ICU.” WikiMedia Commons, January 21, 2013....
Heart of the Matter
This section of the blog is dedicated to considering the important ethical issues of our day: human life, use of technology, human sexuality, and other topics. What is God’s design for human life and flourishing, and why?
The Challenge and Opportunity of Genome Editing: Scientific and Ethical Considerations
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In-Fertility Awareness
You might wonder what in the world Natural Family Planning has to do with National Infertility Awareness Week. I would invite you to consider how those methods that used to be grouped under the umbrella term of Natural Family Planning (NFP) are more advanced now than...
The Subtle Violence of IVF
Some time ago, I met a woman who was suffering with a relatively mild illness. In counseling her to make sure to get enough rest, she stated that it was unlikely she could do so given the fact that she had young identical twins at home. As we talked, she shared that...
Health Risks and Abortion: Women Can Handle the Truth
In the wake the recent commemoration of National Infertility Awareness Week (April 18-24th, 2021), I was introduced to the film documentary, Hush (2017), which is a deep dive into the controversies surrounding the possible links between induced abortion and future...
Nourished by Creation
When we think about the gift of creation, we ought to remember that God has given us dominion over the earth to care for it, and creation is His gift to us. Indeed, He nourishes us through His creation. We take our sustenance from the earth. It is one of the...
Research Dangerous to Humans: Can We Gene Edit Embryos for Research?
I still remember listening to an interview as I was driving to work; the interview was happening as a scientist literally “created” human embryos. Just months after a Chinese scientist had performed gene editing on the embryos of twin girls in China, which were then...
The Importance of Working for Ethical Vaccines
Read this fascinating article about the research that lead to how messenger RNA (mRNA) was developed and then employed by Derrick Rossi to change adult stem cells to act like pluripotent embryonic cells. This is some of the research and development that has led to...
To Be Pro-Life is to be Pro-Science
Join Dr. Marguerite Duane, founder of Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS), Dr. Maureen Condic, associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Utah, and Sister Grace Usala, RSM, MD. These three women discuss how, as...