Is IVF Morally Permissible: A Dialogue, Part 2

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week Sean and Scott continue the conversation about the morality of IVF. Don't forget to listen to Part 1, last week, when they defined and explained the nature of IVF and began the conversation about the moral permissibility of practicing it. This week, we uncover further differences and clarify the moral issues beneath the debate. ==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which offers degrees bot...

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0:00.0	All right, friends, welcome back.
0:03.1	We've got part two for you this week,
0:05.3	where Scott, Ray, and I, Sean McDowell,
0:08.0	had a conversation about in vitro fertilization.
0:12.0	We went an hour and five minutes longer than planned, felt we needed to nuance
0:16.2	it, and when we were done, we felt like we just got started. So we cut it in two parts, and this is part
0:22.1	two today, brought to you by Talbot School of
0:25.1	theology viola university enjoy.
0:28.3	I just I want to read something and then you just respond in terms of what you think I think you'll disagree
0:38.0	But I don't know how to phrase it better myself than Stephanie Gray Connors, her book can see by science, she's
0:45.2	Catholic and so obviously understand where she's coming from.
0:49.6	We're not going to find chapter in verse, a Bible passage that says because the technology wasn't
0:55.8	available. So in some ways it's a theology, the body in biblical principles that we
1:01.2	have to play off and see if it works.
1:05.0	So here's kind of the case that she makes.
1:07.8	She's talking about how at the moment of one, so she's contrasting conception in IVF with conception in God's design inside the woman
1:20.5	and she says in IVF it enlists a third party to do so at the moment of conception, which is interesting.
1:29.0	We bring a third party in at the moment of conception.
1:32.0	And then she walks through some of the differences. third party in at the moment of conception.
1:32.7	And then she walks through some of the differences
1:35.0	between how IVF conceives and how it naturally conceives
1:40.7	inside.
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