Challenges of New Reproductive Technologies for Jewish Ethics, The
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Newman, Louis E.
Issue Date
1992
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25
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|We live in an age of unprecedented medical technologies which raise a range of perplexing problems. Among these are questions about when life begins and ends, about the interrelationships between human sexuality, reproduction, and marriage, about the extent to which people control, or perhaps should be allowed to control, the means of their own reproduction, and ultimately about the very nature of humanness. Many people also live in a cultural world informed by religious beliefs and values whose origins lie in far distant times and places. These people want to preserve that religious, cultural world and believe that what it says about life and love, about sexuality and family and humanness, can still be relevant today. Thus, the question arises: Can an ancient religious tradition respond to ethical problems arising from radically new reproductive technologies; and if so, how? As a Jew and as an historian of this tradition, it is not self-evident to this writer that Judaism can effectively address moral questions about artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or surrogacy. And if it can, it is far from clear just how this should be done...
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25 Creighton L. Rev. 1651 (1991-1992)
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Creighton University School of Law