IVF and the Incarnation
by Adeline A. AllenIf the premise of IVF is that embryos are manufactured in a lab, we are then manipulating the embryonic human as if he’s a product: our product. Continue Reading »
Self-Creation Only Dehumanizes Us
by Joel LooperWhen human beings become our own creators, we dehumanize ourselves. Continue Reading »
Evangelical America and IVF
by Sarah StulaThe evangelical problem with the Alabama IVF ruling exposes cracks in the worldview of some Christians. Continue Reading »
IVF Needs More Regulation
by John MurdockThe Alabama Supreme Court's decision on IVF is based on precedent and the dignity of human life at all stages, and it should be a model to regulate the fertility industry. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousThe only excuse I can imagine for David P. Goldman’s taking up the shopworn claim that T. S. Eliot was an anti-Semite (“T. S. Eliot and the Jews,” March) is that, having been repeated so many times before, it might as well be repeated again as one of the unexamined prejudices of our culture. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Biblical Case Against IVF
by Matthew Lee AndersonVulnerable human beings in the earliest stages of life are especially at risk these days. Increasingly, on both sides of the Atlantic, we chemically induce abortions in the comfort of our own homes, so that the process of terminating an embryo’s life is socially invisible. The fertility-industrial . . . . Continue Reading »
A Right to the Baby We Want
by Wesley J. SmithTechnologies are moving us away from the unconditional acceptance of the children we receive toward a perceived right not only to have a baby, but to have “the baby we want.” Continue Reading »
Difficult Questions on Unused Embryos
by Mark MovsesianYou might wonder whether questions as complicated and wrenching for people as these should be handled by contract law, as if they were equivalent to particularly difficult business transactions. Continue Reading »
Synthetic Children
by Robert Oscar LopezIt can be difficult to live with an artist. Poe’s classic short story “Oval Portrait” details the tragedy of a beautiful young woman married to a painter. She sits so obediently as he tries to capture her in a state of youthful perfection, she seems not to allow herself to eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom. By the time the painter completes the painting, he looks at the body of his bride and realizes that she is dead. Continue Reading »
What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting
by Agnes HowardLast Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman in a wheelchair holding an infant, with a man in hospital scrubs standing solicitously behind them. The scene was instantly recognizable to anyone who has had a baby in this country in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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