Could it be that some knowledge – including whether your unborn child has a serious genetic condition – is actually not helpful, and even harmful to us? In this episode we dig further into the complex ethics of prenatal screening and explore what the Christian tradition makes of seeking to understand the future, and the different arguments for and against aborting children we know will be disabled.
Blog
Prenatal screening 2
The prohibition on soothsaying, transcending genetic determinism, a client-technician relationship and Heidi Crowter’s joyful self-advocacy
Listen to other episodes of Matters of Life and Death or find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Castbox or whatever app you use to subscribe and receive new episodes sent straight to your device.
Tags
Most read posts
How are young people different to those who came before, and what can we learn from them?
Living faithfully as we approach retirement, dependence, dementia and death
Recent posts
There may be no straightforward way to turn around a struggling health service
Assisted suicide: Euthanasia tourism takes off in the US amid fresh push to change law in Britain
Capacities, calling, relationships - disentangling this foundational theological tenet
The long and sad history of medical trial scandals gains another sobering chapter