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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Surrogate Motherhood and Infertility (with Ken Magnuson)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Infertility affects roughly 1 in 6 couples of childbearing age in the US. For those who experience it, it is a deeply painful time. One remedy for infertility is to employ a surrogate to carry a child in for the couple. It seems like a clear win-win for all involved. But there are some troubling aspects of surrogacy that are not often talked about. Join Scott as he interviews Dr. Ken Magnuson, a specialist on the ethics of reproductive technologies for this insightful conversation on the ethi...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

0:10.0

I'm your host Scott Ray, professor of Christian ethics and dean of faculty at

0:14.0

Tallent School of Theology, Biola University.

0:20.0

We're here today with my colleague in Christian ethics.

0:23.1

It's actually nice to have somebody else in the fraternity here.

0:25.6

Absolutely.

0:26.6

Dr. Ken Magnison, who was professor of Christian ethics

0:29.8

at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

0:31.7

in Louisville, Kentucky. He's been there since 1999.

0:34.8

He also chairs the Department of Worldview and Culture, which sounds a bit like a department of philosophy

0:40.6

slash cultural engagement.

0:42.8

Yep.

0:43.8

And also directs what is known as the Commonwealth Project on faith, work, and human flourishing.

0:48.8

So our interests have coincided pretty significantly over the last few years because I've been involved in have

0:54.4

been pretty significantly over the last few years because I've been involved in a similar project to Talbot

0:56.4

That's right area of faith work in economics.

0:58.5

So appreciate all your good work in these multiple areas and I understand how it is to balance bioethics, business ethics,

1:08.2

and those disparate fields and trying to stay on top of a lot of different things at the same time.

1:14.0

But you've been working a lot on a subject that I think a lot of people thought was maybe a closed subject.

1:21.0

You know, 30 or so years ago, we maybe thought we resolved all the issues.

1:26.0

When it comes to surrogacy and surrogate motherhood, what I've come to refer to it as pregnancy

1:32.0

for profit for the most part.

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