TY - JOUR
T1 - A jewish response to the vatican’s new bioethical guidelines
AU - Zivotofsky, Ari Z.
AU - Jotkowitz, Alan
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - The Vatican recently published directives (Dignitas Personae) regarding “beginning of life” issues that explain the Catholic Church’s position regarding new technologies in this area. We think that it is important to develop a response that presents the traditional Orthodox Jewish position on these same issues in order to present an alternative, parallel system. There are many points of commonality between the Vatican document and traditional Jewish thought as well as several important issues where there is a divergence of opinion. The latter include the status of the zygote as produced during in vitro fertilization (IVF), the acceptable of procreation in a method other than through the conjugal act, and the permissibility of deriving benefit from the products of an illicit act. These points of agreement and disagreement are discussed in detail in this article.
AB - The Vatican recently published directives (Dignitas Personae) regarding “beginning of life” issues that explain the Catholic Church’s position regarding new technologies in this area. We think that it is important to develop a response that presents the traditional Orthodox Jewish position on these same issues in order to present an alternative, parallel system. There are many points of commonality between the Vatican document and traditional Jewish thought as well as several important issues where there is a divergence of opinion. The latter include the status of the zygote as produced during in vitro fertilization (IVF), the acceptable of procreation in a method other than through the conjugal act, and the permissibility of deriving benefit from the products of an illicit act. These points of agreement and disagreement are discussed in detail in this article.
KW - Religion
KW - Reproductive technologies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=73349133751&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15265160903197515
DO - 10.1080/15265160903197515
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C2 - 19882451
AN - SCOPUS:73349133751
SN - 1526-5161
VL - 9
SP - 26
EP - 30
JO - American Journal of Bioethics
JF - American Journal of Bioethics
IS - 11
ER -