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What Is a Stem Cell?

What Is a Stem Cell?

Are we to consider the human body divorced from what it means to be a human being? Is the human body merely the ...
What Child Is This?

What Child Is This?

This is an edited and adapted version of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations report on “Marriage, Family and Human Cloning.” It speaks not only of cloning but also briefly touches on artificial insemination, surrogacy, and in vitro fertilization.
Informed Consent

Informed Consent

Christians who give informed consent have an opportunity for faith in God’s care through their time of weakness. ...
Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering

Respecting the integrity of genetic research and its outcome, as Christians we recognize the limitations God ...
Can or Should?

Can or Should?

When questions are raised of abortion, contraception, euthanasia, stem-cell research, in vitro fertilization, we ...
Bios and Biology

Bios and Biology

In one sense, bioethics is something quite new, a development of the last half-century or so. The term itself is ...
Bioethics! What Is It?

Bioethics! What Is It?

Bioethics is ethics applied to moral concerns arising out of the technology that involves decision-making about ...