168: The Bioethics of Catholic Feminism
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In today's episode, we're talking with writer and podcaster Samantha Stephenson all about egg donation, surrogacy, and other troubling bioethics developments that the world accepts and the church refuses. Why is that? Isn't egg donation just #womenhelpingwomen? Isn't surrogacy just helping women who want to have kids have them?! Not so, says Samantha--in fact, her insight as to why these procedures are harmful for women is incredibly interesting and she provides tons of resources for those interested in learning more. Enjoy!
Today’s episode is brought to you by Select to Give, a charitable giving program that helps persecuted Christians in the Holy Land.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 168. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're talking all about how egg donation fits into the pro-life puzzle. |
| 0:10.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Select to Give, a program that helps persecuted Christians in the holy land. |
| 0:16.5 | Head to select togive.org to learn more and make sure to stay tuned to our whole episode. |
| 0:21.8 | In the middle, I'll be speaking with |
| 0:23.5 | select international tours as founder all about their charitable program. You're going to do. |
| 0:33.0 | Do you know? |
| 0:34.0 | Do you know? And then Oh, So, Oh, So, The Oh, Hello and happy Wednesday. Today we're talking with Samantha Stevenson all about |
| 2:49.9 | surrogacy and egg donation and how they fit into the pro-life puzzle. |
| 2:55.0 | This is a really tricky topic to talk about first of all because I really know very little about it |
| 3:01.0 | and second of all because to be honest I haven't given it a ton of |
| 3:04.4 | thought. When I think about the pro-life movement, so many other things come to mind. But these |
| 3:10.0 | sorts of bioethics issues are on their rise and Samantha is a great resource for helping us learn all about them. |
| 3:17.0 | So without further ado, let's jump on in to our conversation with Samantha Stevenson. |
| 3:22.0 | Samantha, welcome to the show. |
| 3:24.0 | Hi Claire, I'm so excited to be here. |
| 3:27.0 | Tell us a little bit about you and what your life as a Catholic feminist looks like. |
| 3:31.0 | Okay, I am Samantha Stevenson. I'm a mother of three. I am a Catholic |
| 3:36.3 | convert. I got my degrees at Loyola Mary Mountain Los Angeles so I have a love for |
| 3:41.7 | the truth of the church as well as a heart for justice. |
| 3:45.0 | I'm a writer. I'm currently writing a book on the bioethics of motherhood. |
| 3:51.0 | I host a podcast or I will be hosting a podcast that explores bioethics in the light of faith. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Claire Swinarski, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Claire Swinarski and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.