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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | A tragic in vitro fertilization mixup that left two couples with an agonizing moral decision. |
0:08.6 | The U.K. Parliament passed a bill legalizing medical aid in dying. |
0:12.6 | Players prey on the field while a melee is going on after the Ohio State Michigan football game. |
0:18.0 | President Biden pardons his son Hunter, and the Supreme Court hears arguments |
0:21.5 | on a Tennessee law outlawing gender-affirming treatments to minors under the age of 18. We'll discuss |
0:27.4 | these stories, the first two in more depth than the last three. In fact, there were just too many |
0:30.9 | good stories this week that we can't leave out. And we'll answer some of your questions. I'm your host, Scott Ray, and sitting in for Sean is my Talba colleague, Dr. Eric Tonnis. This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update |
0:42.0 | from Talba School of Theology at Biola University. Eric, welcome. Great to have you back with us. |
0:46.7 | Good to be here, Scott. All right, here's story number one, this heartbreaking story. |
0:51.6 | A tragic IVF mix-up as reported in the New York Times. Two couples in California |
0:56.9 | discovered that they were raising each other's genetic children. And the question arises, |
1:02.9 | should they switch their kids? This is about May and Zoe, who were born to each other's genetic |
1:10.0 | parents. May's parents, the Cardinalis, were thrilled to each other's genetic parents. |
1:15.1 | May's parents, the Cardinalis, were thrilled to have their child, but at two months old for the child, the dad began to wonder when she looked strikingly different from either of her |
1:20.4 | parents. |
1:21.4 | In fact, the dad would often joke about the clinic making a mistake that gave them a child |
1:25.8 | that was not their own. |
1:27.3 | They arranged for |
1:28.0 | DNA tests. Initially, they were pretty ambivalent, understandably so about taking those tests, |
1:32.5 | discovered that both, it was 99% certain that both of them were not the biological parents. |
1:39.0 | They looked into it a little bit further. They recognized that they really had an obligation |
1:43.1 | to tell the clinic, |
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