Issues in Bioethics

Fr. Tad Pacholczyk discusses controversial ethical issues in biology and medicine.

Questions Covered:

• 15:22 - What is the Church’s stance on these Evangelical groups who are adopting leftover IVF embryos and using them?
• 23:45 - What is the Catholic Church’s stance on harvesting human body parts on animals?
• 35:58 - Are there any differences between IVF children and naturally conceived children?
• 44:40 - Is it wrong for me to perform transvaginal ultrasounds for follicle development for women before they go on to an IVF specialist?
• 48:29 - Is there a gene from schizophrenia? Is it ethical to remove such a gene?
• 51:18 - Will there be a time when a human can regrow a limb just a worm or lizard and regrow body parts?
• 53:00 - Are abortion and IVF regulation linked and do they influence each other?