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Contemporary medicine, ethics and law have been trying to pinpoint the exact moment when a being starts to be a human being and as such acquires his specific rights and duties. It is a moot point and there are numerous controversies concerning this issue, because according to some thinkers a human being possesses the status of being a person from the moment of fertilization, according to others this status is acquired only when the embryo is implanted inside the woman’s womb. The law, both civil and canon, plays an important role in this debate. It can be said that it is the positive law that bestows on an embryo a legal status by determining the attribute which is indispensable for being a human (conditio sine qua non). Meeting this condition is required for a human being to possess legal rights and duties, e.g. the right to be protected by the law from the very moment of conception. Unfortunately, the Polish civil law (and in that it differs from the canon law), although it deals wit h the protection of a new life in the mother’s womb and forbids abortion, does not ascribe a legal status to the embryo in an explicit way and thus permits many malpractices concerning an unborn child (for example abortion in specific circumstances and in vitro fertilization).
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Over the course of almost half a century of development, in vitro fertilisation techniques have not only become popular and accessible, but have also gained ethical acceptance even in Catholic circles, despite the unequivocally negative assessment of the Church’s Magisterium. The paper addresses the emotional and persuasive arguments of opponents and supporters of this procedure. The serious arguments,revolve around two issues: on the one hand, the fate of embryos that perish in the course of this procedureand, on the other hand, the separation of the conception of a new person from the parents’ sexual act. These objections have lost none of their relevance and moral weight, which is why Catholic parents, despite the undoubtedly acute suffering that is associatedwith infertility, should maintain a critical and distanced outlook on in vitro fertilisation.
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W trakcie niemalże półwiekowego rozwoju techniki zapłodnienia in vitro nie tylko stały się popularne i dostępne, ale także zyskały etyczną akceptację nawet w środowiskach katolickich, mimo jednoznacznie negatywnej oceny Magisterium Kościoła. W artykule została najpierw podjęta dyskusja z emocjonalnymi i perswazyjnymi argumentami przeciwników i zwolenników tej procedura. Poważne argumenty skupiają się jednak wokół dwóch kwestii: z jednej strony losu embrionów, które giną w trakcie stosowania tej procedury, z drugiej zaś rozdzielenia poczęcia nowej osoby od aktu seksualnego rodziców. Zastrzeżenia te nie straciły nic ze swojej aktualności i wagi moralnej, dlatego też katoliccy rodzice, mimo niewątpliwie dotkliwego cierpienia, jakie jest związane z niepłodnością, powinni zachować krytyczny dystans wobec zapłodnienia in vitro.
Polonia Sacra
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2013
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vol. 17
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issue 1
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The current age is witnessing the depreciation of the value of innocent human life in the context of medicine and biotechnology. A principal issue concerns human embryos which may be conceived unnaturally through in vitro fertilization. Some of them are destined to be born and lead normal lives. However the majority of them are killed either through the very procedure of IVF or subsequently as subjects of various forms of experimentation. The Roman Catholic Church strives to protect human embryos. Her moral teaching addresses the problem continuously; however the most fervent teaching concerning this problem is John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium vitae. This encyclical explains the great value of innocent human life with reference to three fundamental theological statements: that the humans are the only beings created in God’s image and likeness, that they were redeemed by the passion, death, and resurrection of God’s Son, and that they are called to communion with God. This special relationship with God creates the human’s dignity and gives his life its particular value. Nobody has the authority to dispose of his/her life according to his/ her individual inclination any more than he has the authority to decide the same in the case of others. The life of any innocent human being which starts with conception may not be violated and nobody may be justified in killing innocent people. The killing of human embryos is the most common case of such killing in the current age.
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a method known almost all over the world, by which modern man is trying to cope with the problem of infertility. The aim of this article is to show the eugenic roots of in vitro and to attempt to reconciliate the supporters and opponents of this controversial procedure at a NaProTechnological plane. In order to achieve this, the author characterizes IVF from the technical, medical and legal point of view. Then, the article shows the relationship between the in vitro procedure and eugenic thought. The third section contextualizes the problem of artificial insemination in the contemporary, human uncritical faith in technological progress. The last part of this article directs the reader's attention towards NaProTechnology – a method of infertility treatement which can engage both the supporters and the opponents of IVF.
Diametros
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2012
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issue 32
131-159
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Konserwatywni przeciwnicy prowadzenia badań naukowych na ludzkich embrionach argumentują, że od momentu poczęcia mają one status moralny równy statusowi ludzi dorosłych: zarodki mają takie samo prawo do życia jak dorośli. W artykule przedstawiam oryginalną argumentację za tym stanowiskiem, której źródła można znaleźć w XVII-wiecznej teologii moralnej i współczesnej teorii decyzji. Argumentacja ta nie odwołuje się do statusu ontologicznego embrionów, ale do pewnego typu rozumowania praktycznego na temat tego, co należy robić w rozmaitych sytuacjach niepewności. Na pierwszy rzut oka wydaje się ona wzmacniać stanowisko konserwatywne, ponieważ nie zależy od kontrowersyjnych metafizycznych założeń na temat statusu zarodków czy kwestii ich potencjalności. W artykule pokażę jednak, że argumentacja ta obarczona jest poważnymi wadami, które sprawiają, że nie da się jej zastosować do uzasadnienia sprzeciwu wobec moralnej czy prawnej dopuszczalności np. badań na zarodkowych komórkach macierzystych.
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the arguments that proponents of the conservative view on the moral status of the human embryo offer in support of their position. I claim that there exists an argument in favour of the conservative position that has been overlooked by virtually all contemporary bioethicists. It refers not to the metaphysical presumptions about the status of the embryo or its developmental capabilities but rather it is based on the criteria of rational decisions under normative uncertainty. I will demonstrate that this argument, although much stronger than many other arguments in support of the conservative view, has very limited use. My analysis will concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo (until about the 14th day of conception) and therefore will be especially important in the context of recent debates about the moral and legal permissibility of research on human embryonic stem cells.
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