The Vatican's dilemma: on the morality of IVF and the Incarnation

Ducharme HM

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.1991.tb00144.x

Bioethics, 5(1), 57-66, 1991

The Vatican's dilemma: on the morality of IVF and the Incarnation

Howard M. Ducharme

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DOI10.1111/j.1467-8519.1991.tb00144.x PMID11650948

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Ducharme maintains that the Vatican's moral argument against all instances of in vitro fertilization (IVF), as set forth in its Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation (1987), is incoherent and inconsistent given the traditional doctrine of the Incarnation.

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Ethics/Philosophy > Religious Ethics > Catholic Teaching on IVF Ethics/Philosophy > Bioethics > Assisted Reproductive Technology Body Literacy > Education > Religious Perspectives on Reproduction

Vatican moral argument against in vitro fertilization, Donum Vitae IVF ethics Catholic teaching, Instruction Respect Human Life dignity procreation critique, Catholic bioethics IVF Incarnation doctrine, religious ethics assisted reproduction morality, Ducharme Vatican IVF incoherence argument, Catholic Church reproductive technology moral theology, in vitro fertilization religious moral objections, human dignity procreation Catholic bioethics, theological critique Vatican position assisted reproduction

PMID 11650948 11650948 DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1991.tb00144.x 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1991.tb00144.x

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Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1987). *Donum Vitae: Instruction on the Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation*.

The Vatican's dilemma: on the morality of IVF and the Incarnation

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