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Confession By Resistance
The following quote regarding Dietrich Bonhoeffer from his friend and first biography, Eberhard Bethge, aptly captures the mental wrestling of Bonhoeffer and remains applicable to us when considering the times we are living in with respect society’s treatment of the unborn children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian during the Nazi regime who was most…
Concerns Regarding the Freezing of Children In Their Embryonic Stage of Development
Introduction Most commonly, after an embryo is created through in-vitro fertilization, the embryo grows in a culture media for several days before being frozen (cryopreservation). The exception would be in the rare practice of a fresh embryo transfer cycle in which the embryo will be transferred back to the uterus after several days of growth…
Affirming the Personhood of Children At Conception
The Attack Unborn children are being viciously assaulted and dehumanized in our society. What was recently unthinkable, the killing of unborn children, has now been hailed as a fundamental right. The act is celebrated and paraded as an exercise of femininity and reproductive control. In addition, embryos are commonly viewed as simply biological organisms or…
An Introduction to In-Vitro Fertilization-Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET)
I. What is IVF-ET? “In-vitro” refers to taking place outside of a living organism, most often thought of in a test tube. “Fertilization” refers to the union of the female gamete, an egg, and the male gamete, sperm, to produce a zygote/embryo1. Thus, IVF simply refers to the method of joining egg and sperm outside…
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