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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Current Issues at the Edges of Life

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What are most current and pressing ethical issues in the field of bioethics? How is euthanasia being practiced in Canada? What are the new horizons in surrogacy? What is the state of the law concerning IVF in the US? Join Scott and Sean for this stimulating discussion of the most current issues especially some of the “out there” new horizons in bioethics.Read a transcript of this episode at: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2023/current-issues-at-the-edges-of-lif...

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What trends are taking place in bioethics that we need to think bibically about?

0:07.0

Whether it's the FDA making abortion pills easier to access, Quebec euthanasia deaths being the highest in the world, or a Catholic

0:15.5

hospital being forced to perform gender affirming surgery, there are some issues

0:21.5

that we need to think bibically about.

0:24.7

I'm your host Sean McDow.

0:26.6

I'm your co-host Scott Ray.

0:28.1

This is the thing bibically brought to you by Taubil School of Theology at

0:31.0

Biola University. Scott, sometimes I'll look at these stories and I think you can't make

0:36.0

this up, can you? And we're going to get to some stories that I literally can't believe this is happening. But let's start with one that I can believe and we both

0:45.4

saw it coming but we've got to address it that the FDA is now making abortion pills easier to access. What's going on? Well we had

0:55.4

actually we had we interviewed Dr Donna Harrison not long ago on on this

0:59.5

podcast and she told us this was coming. But it came just not that long ago in early in January of 2023,

1:07.0

where the Food and Drug Administration approved pharmacies

1:12.0

to carry abortion-inducing drugs, RU-86 is their street name, accessible

1:20.4

over-the-counter and without a prescription and without any necessary medical pre-exam or follow-up necessary.

1:29.0

So the do-it-yourself over-the-counter abortion is now about to be the law of the land by

1:35.8

decree of the food and drug administration. Now our concern is Donna walked

1:39.8

through again she's an OBGYN is that there are serious medical

1:44.0

fallout for many women who take this excessive bleeding and so really what this

1:50.7

does is it moves it out of the hand of a medical doctor into somebody

1:55.3

to just do at home.

1:57.9

That's one concern.

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