Bioethics
Read the headlines or browse news stories these days and you’ll find all sorts of medically related topics. Cloning. Infertility. Test tube babies. Euthanasia. Stem cell research. Embryo adoption. Surrogacy. These are just a sampling, right? My journey through infertility and pregnancy loss has given me a front-row seat in some of the bioethics conversations—a seat I never would have pursued had my situation not demanded answers. I served on the board of an international consumer group for infertility patients, and I wrestled my way through “Why does God allow such suffering?” That journey led me to coauthor books in partnership with a theologically trained medical doctor and the Christian Medical Association. We also contributed chapters to some books and coauthored a bioethics column for ten months. How do you and I navigate our way through complex medical issues? How do we process these topics through the grid of a truly Christian worldview (not to be confused with a political party’s)? Knowing that good men and women arrive at differing conclusions, what principles should guide our thinking? Hopefully you will find answers to some of these questions here.
Bioethics Articles
For ten months we wrote a bioethics column that appeared at www.ibelieve.com. Those columns are reproduced here.
Other Related Bioethics Articles
“Some Abortion Foes Forego Politics for Private Talk,” the New York Times cover story on A Woman’s Choice Clinic in which Dr. Cutrer is quoted
(January 16, 2006)
Lecture Notes on Bioethics
Bioethics Lecture Notes, DTS Anthropology Class
The Bible takes a high view of life, which has ramifications for humans from fertilization to the grave. In this lecture, delivered approximately once a year in DTS Anthropology classes, I look at the “beginning of life” portion, addressing such issues as contraception, abortion, and stem cell research. Download the PDF →