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A Time to Be Born: Faith Communities and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

By Kate Ott, Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing

September 25, 2009 - 6:00am

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We must commit to an ongoing conversation that respects the desire for biological children while honoring reproductive justice. Faith communities can promote values that can guide moral and ethical decision making on the use of ARTs.

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"Be Fruitful and Multiply?" Ethical Takes on ART

By Kate Ott, Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing

February 6, 2009 - 8:00am

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News of a California woman giving birth to octuplets raises a pressing problem: the development and use of assisted reproductive technologies has outstripped our ethical and regulatory response.

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Eight Is Not Enough? The Big Families We Love to Hate

By Kathryn Joyce, RH Reality Check

February 5, 2009 - 5:44pm

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After a brief moment of "miracle news" coverage when the successful delivery of the California octuplets was first announced, criticism of the mother and her doctors began to mount from across the ideological spectrum.

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As Christmas Nears, Contemplating Miraculous Births

By Kate Ott, Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing

December 22, 2008 - 8:00am

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Miraculous biblical stories of birth fit more closely with our notions of reproductive technologies than with the Vatican's re-assertion that the only authentic context for human life is an act of reciprocal love between a man and woman in marriage.

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