TY - BOOK ID - 107406239 TI - The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition AU - Brakman, Sarah-Vaughan AU - Weaver, Darlene Fozard AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2007 SN - 9781402062117 9781402062100 PB - Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media B.V DB - UniCat KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - General ethics KW - Religious studies KW - History of human medicine KW - Gynaecology. Obstetrics KW - voortplanting (mensen) KW - theologie KW - ethiek KW - filosofie KW - geneeskunde KW - deontologie KW - vroedkunde KW - katholicisme KW - godsdienstfilosofie KW - Adoption KW - Christian ethics KW - Frozen human embryos KW - Human embryo KW - 241.63*5 KW - Embryo, Human KW - Embryology, Human KW - Human embryo, Frozen KW - Cryobiology KW - 241.63*5 Theologische ethiek: bio-ethiek (bioethiek); genetische experimenten; transplantatie; eugenetica KW - Theologische ethiek: bio-ethiek (bioethiek); genetische experimenten; transplantatie; eugenetica KW - Religious aspects KW - Catholic Church KW - Catholic authors KW - Transplantation KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Preservation KW - Frozen human embryos. KW - Catholic Church. KW - Catholic authors. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:107406239 AB - At last, a comprehensive collection of essays that examines and advances ethical evaluations of the controversial and increasingly popular practice of embryo adoption. In the United States alone, 400,000 frozen embryos created for in vitro fertilization exist but are no longer desired for that purpose. What are we morally obliged or permitted to do about these "spare" embryos? More of their genetic parents are considering donating these embryos to others to gestate and raise. This practice is politically volatile (figuring in debates about embryonic stem cells) and medically and morally complex. At the present time within the Roman Catholic Church there is no official teaching on embryo adoption. Catholic ethical analyses grapple with the way embryo adoption comports with respect for embryonic human life yet challenges Catholic moral critiques of assisted reproductive technologies. This volume brings together leading philosophers and theologians to engage Catholic debates about embryo adoption in an interactive format. The editors, a philosopher bioethicist and a moral theologian, provide a helpful overview of the practice and the arguments surrounding embryo adoption. They engage neglected Catholic ethical resources and issues to advance the current debate and chart new directions in Catholic moral thinking about this intriguing practice. The volume also includes a description of embryo adoption from a physician practitioner along with reflections from a couple who successfully adopted an embryo. ER -