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Parental Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Get PDFCommon approaches to the ethics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) are based on the examination of whether the technology used is a help or a substitution of the conjugal act; whether it is licit or illicit. This paper instead attempts to develop a bioethical solution based on the obligations and moral responsibilities that potential and prospective parents assume when procreating; obligations to procreate and not to create; to “beget” and not to “make” children. After having discussed the principle of parental responsibility, it is contrasted with procreative liberty and procreative beneficence in prevision of any ambiguities. On the basis of the many present and future bioethical dilemmas of ARTs, I argue for the need to implement the principle of parental responsibility as a moral imperative. The main intention of the paper is to show that a principle based on moral responsibility is the only one that can save humanity from self destruction. I therefore argue for an ethics of parental responsibility in bioethics
Brian Goldman, The power of kindness: Why empathy is essential in everyday life
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Multicultural and interreligious perspectives on informed consent. The Christian perspective
No full textThe Christian perspective in bioethics, in the framework of a creationistic concept of nature with a normative value (finalism) and in a belief to know the truth in nature (cognitivism), considers human life as worthy of respect and protection (as a gift from God and created in His image), inasmuch as it is the expression of a personal life, dynamically intent on fully manifesting itself. Informed consent acquires a specific meaning in this conceptual framework
Comunicar y participar: la comunicación institucional en la Iglesia y su relación con la tutela y promoción del bien común
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