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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.

A Response to Damian Howard, SJ

Abdulaziz Sachedina
November 1, 2013August 12, 2019

As I read Damian Howard’s comments in his recent blog entry, I started to engage in my own self-critical assessment. In my previous blog entry I may have given the impression of being a thoroughgoing supporter of rationalism in order to provoke Muslim exclusivist legal-juridical discourse to consider a more universalist, text-based argument that suggests a default secularity of Islamic religious thought.

Opening a Conversation with Abdulaziz Sachedina

Damian Howard
October 31, 2013August 12, 2019

Sachedina’s work generates a number of questions, and suggests possibilities for deeper dialogue and engagement between Muslims and Christians on moral matters.

Bridging Bioethics and Social Ethics

Series: Science and the Human Person

Maura Ryan
September 27, 2013August 12, 2019

Religious traditions can and should provide resources for challenging the extremes of liberal individualism and exposing the religions of science and the market at work in constructing and mediating choices—all kinds of choices—about the development, use, and distribution of biotechnologies.

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 »

Reframing Islamic Bioethics

Sherine Hamdy
September 18, 2013August 12, 2019

Bioethics needs to look beyond the cutting-edge life-or-death scenarios and speak to the everyday inequalities of politically mismanaged and economically vanquished societies.

A Reply to Thomas Banchoff and Abdulaziz Sachedina (Part 2)

Damian Howard
September 4, 2013August 9, 2019

Asking venerable religious traditions to play catch-up with the Enlightenment grates on my post-liberal nerves, I am afraid. As Sachedina points out, the process of critique is just as necessary in the other direction. I think we need to stand back from the starting point of my previous post and take in a wider picture.

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