BreakPoint: Human Life and Ethics in a Brave New World

byJohn Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris
BreakPoint

Advances in technology are changing almost everything about our lives. But it must not change how we understand, and value, human life.

Over the past few weeks on BreakPoint and our BreakPoint podcast, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about medical technologies and the ethical dilemmas we all face now because of them.

On the surface, the issue seems simple: Having babies is a good thing, so any technology that helps us have babies must be good, too.

But technologies—like in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, egg donation—raise enormously important questions: Where is the line between fulfilling God’s command to be fruitful and actually playing God in ways that trivialize human dignity? Is it ever okay to treat life in the womb or the test tube as a commodity? Are today’s reproductive technologies safeguarding life or redefining it? What, in the end, does it mean to be human? To bear God’s image?


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