Current Issues at the Edges of Life
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
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Surrogacy
If a case like this made its way up to the Supreme Court, I'm relatively confident that the right of the doctors and the Catholics, their religious freedom would be preserved. It's also a coin flip as to whether whether the Catholic health system will consider this the same kind of deal breaker that they consider abortion and assisted suicide. The idea is that there's new horizons for surrogacy, what's called whole body gestational donation. And so you can imagine carrying home a baby from the hospital on the same day that you've authorized the discontinuation of life support for your spouse. Holy cow. What a mixture of emotions.
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