Begotten or made?

By Oliver O'Donovan

Subjects: Bioethics, Fertilization in vitro, Moral and ethical aspects, Fertilization in vitro, human, Insemination, Christian ethics, Medical Ethics, Sex change, Human artificial insemination, Transsexualisme, Aspect moral, Test tube babies, Artificial insemination, Human, Morale chrétienne, Hormone therapy, Transsexualism, Moral and ethical aspects of Human artificial insemination, Artificial Insemination, Fertilization in Vitro, Jewish ethics, Insémination artificielle humaine, Moral and ethical aspects of Sex change, Ethical aspects, Fertilization in vitro, Human, Fécondation in vitro, Moral and ethical aspects of Human fertilization in vitro, Gender transition, Human Artificial insemination, Gender reassignment surgery, Kunstmatige inseminatie, Extrakorporale Befruchtung, Artificial insemination, human, Morale juive, Transsexuality, Human Fertilization in vitro

Description: As I looked through evidence submitted by Christian bodies to the Warnock Committee, and compared them with writings from other Christian sources in the last quarter-century, it seemed to me that a consistent concern emerged. It was expressed as clearly by those who accepted these new techniques as by those who rejected them. It was common to Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. It arose from a caution about the impact of technology (which is, above all, the impact of certain ways of thinking) on our self-understanding as human beings. It found common expression in a distinction that constantly recurred: between the use of technique to assist human procreation and the transformation of human procreation into a technical operation. It was a concern about the capacity of technology to change, not merely the conditions of our human existence, but its essential characteristics. - Preface.