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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Biting Their Own Tails

FEMINISTS IGNORE GENDERCIDE

By Eric Metaxas
BreakPoint

Certain worldviews lead to contradictions so absurd you’d laugh -- if the cost weren’t measured in lives. There’s one contradiction I find particularly shocking.

Long-time listeners to BreakPoint will know that my colleagues and I consider the sanctity of life a global issue. Not only is abortion an injustice no matter where it takes place, but the social disasters wrought by killing millions of babies in the womb are hard to imagine. Nowhere is this truer than in China, where the government’s infamous one-child policy has snuffed out a generation of girls and left a gender imbalance probably without precedent in human history.

Chillingly, on this year’s 34th anniversary of the policy’s enactment, 34 million Chinese boys face the fact that they’ll never find wives, because those women were simply never born.

The reason the policy has had such a disproportionate impact on the sexes there is simple: in China, as in most traditional Asian cultures, male children are more highly prized than females. Thus, if the government says you can only have one child, most Chinese parents prefer a boy, who will carry on their family name and legacy.


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