Beginning of Life Ethics

Catalog description

This course deals with the various ethical controversies surrounding the beginning of human life. Such issues include definitions of life and of humanity, procreative rights, male womb, surrogacy/outsourcing, parenting, artificial reproductive technologies, human cloning, animal-human hybrids, morality of abortion, the moral status of the human embryo, and fetal tissue transplants. (genetic screening and pre-natal diagnosis). The seminar adopts multi religio-cultural perspectives.