Reproductive medicine. New procedures fool Mother Nature and evade ethical debate.

Abstract

Fetal tissue transplants that rely on abortions, and techniques used in prenatal diagnosis and artificial reproduction, have raised fervent and intractable opposition from the Roman Catholic Church and pro-life groups. Recent medical reports of advances in these areas have acknowledged the arguments offered by these organizations and, in turn, are offering some new ways for resolving the differences, as the following articles show.