Medically Assisted Procreation, A Challenge to Christian Morality
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2002-02
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
In our world today, it is obvious that the advance of technology and science has
changed and influenced in many ways the lives of people. Technology has brought
solutions to some problems such as hunger, diseases, poverty. Machines have relieved
humans from the burden of heavy and time consuming works. The ancient dream of life
freed from famine and disease is being realized in some places through technology, and.
many people look at technology as their principal source of hope.
It is a fact that technology has greatly contributed to the welfare of human beings
in their modern world. Many people, among them some theologians have given a positive
appraisal of technology. They see it as a source not only of higher living standards but
also of greater freedom and creative expression. Due to the many advantages it offers,
they affirm technology as "an instrument of love and compassion in relieving human
sufferings - a modern response to the biblical command to feed the hungry and help the
neighbor in need") In this regard technology is seen as an instrument of human
fulfillment and self-expression in the use of our God-given intelligence to transform the
world.
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Procreation, Christian Morality, Medically Assisted, sterility, Vitro Fertilization