Assisted Reproductive Technologies Archives

Gender, Religion and IVF

Maura Ryan
February 27, 2014August 12, 2019

A focus on condemning particular therapies and methods of intervention, or on the limits of individual autonomy, overlooks crucial dimensions of the lived experience of infertility globally.

Neuroscience and the Religious Self

Ilia Delio
February 18, 2014August 12, 2019

The field of Neuroscience is changing our understanding of the way we live, move and have our being.

Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Consumerism: Considering the Social Impact of ARTs

Charles Camosy
January 27, 2014August 12, 2019

As the working group members of Contending Modernities think together how about Catholics and Muslims can work together on issues of bioethics—and with particular reference to how social structures impact and shape these issues—the problem of consumerism looms large. Read the full article »

Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Parenthood in Islam: A Response to Thomas Eich

Ebrahim Moosa
December 2, 2013August 12, 2019

In his recent blog post, Thomas Eich asks if particular issues of medical ethics are “really only about the issue at hand, as is usually claimed in the course of such debates?” “How strong is the presence of other factors in these debates,” he continues, “which are not directly linked to the medical technology under discussion?” Read the full article »

The Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Iran

Robert Tappan
November 22, 2013August 12, 2019

Iran, though not alone among Muslim-majority countries with active fertility clinics, is unusual in its acceptance of third-party reproductive techniques, including the use of donor eggs and embryos, as well as surrogacy.

Islamic Discourses on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Thomas Eich
November 12, 2013August 12, 2019

Several years ago I attended a workshop in Switzerland where scholars from several European countries, as well as religious representatives from Niger and the Middle East, discussed issues relating to assisted reproductive technologies. I remember one particular exchange vividly. I wanted to inquire as to the opinion of the Chief Judge (Qadi) of a major Middle Eastern City on the issue of heterologous insemination. Read the full article »

A Response to Sherine Hamdy and Charles Camosy

Series: Science and the Human Person

Robert Tappan
September 24, 2013August 12, 2019

Camosy and Hamdy both offer us food for thought in regard to the specific cases they present, as well as to the wider concerns of the Science and the Human Person project and its question: “What is the human person?”

The Case of the “Two-Minus-One” Pregnancy

Charles Camosy
September 19, 2013August 12, 2019

In post-Enlightenment secular bioethics, the default value has become the autonomy and choice of the individual. But Christian and Muslims traditions are, of course, skeptical of this shift. Unless we critically examine the social context and structures which shape and even coerce our “autonomous” and “free” choice, we cannot hope to adequately engage bioethical issues. Read the full article »

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