By The Ruth Institute, The Stream, March 27, 2024
The Ruth Institute is a global nonprofit organization, leading an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love. Founder and President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the author of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.
Dr. John Di Camillo, PhD, assists hospital ethics committees and manages the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s free consultation service. There he fields tough questions on topics such as:
-
Sexual orientation and gender identity.
-
End-of-life issues.
-
Brain death and organ donation.
-
Reproductive technologies.
-
Pregnancy complications.
-
“Cooperation with evil” situations such as assisting in scheduling abortion appointments.
In this episode of the Dr. J Show, he speaks with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse about the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling case involving frozen embryos who were destroyed without the parents’ consent. The parents of these children sued the fertility clinics where their embryos were stored for wrongful death.
This case raised questions regarding who are considered human beings. If frozen embryos aren’t children, are they medical waste? Is in-vitro fertilization ethical in the first place? …