Crescatoriile de fetusi

[Jane Says]

Unele lucruri pur si simplu NU TREBUIE facute. PUNCT.

With growing numbers of couples relying on in-vitro fertilization, estimates place the number of frozen embryos in America at more than 400,000. During in vitro, doctors stimulate the woman's ovaries to release multiple eggs - for most women, one round of stimulation yields 15 or more eggs. Usually, anywhere from half to 90% of these eggs are fertilized in a process where the sperm and eggs are combined in a Petri-dish. The resulting embryos are then implanted into the woman's uterus. To avoid risky multiple births, however, only three eggs are implanted into the uterus at a time. Often, pregnancy is achieved before all the embryos have been implanted. The extras are cryopreserved - that is, frozen - and the couple must then decide what to do with them.
Couples have several options, each with ethical implications. Some couples choose to implant the extra embryos at a time during the woman's cycle when she is not likely to become pregnant. Others choose to donate the embryos for stem cell and fertility research. Still others take them home to bury, or allow them to be destroyed at the clinic.

Cine este John Breck si ce treaba are cu ortodoxia:

Father John Breck (1939- ) is an archpriest and theologian of the Orthodox Church in America specializing in Scripture and Ethics. He has been Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Patristics at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France), and Director of the Saint Silouan Retreat on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, since 1995.

Breck received his B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University (1960), an M.Div. (Master of Divinity, the basic seminary degree for those seeking ordination) from Yale Divinity School (1965), and a Doctorate of Theology from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in Germany (1972). In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

Printre cartile publicate de el:
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• The Sacred Gift of Life: Orthodox Christianity and Bioethics. Crestwood: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1999.
• Stages on Life's Way: Orthodox Thinking on Bioethics (with Lynn Breck). Crestwood: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2006.