Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide [Audiobook]

Human reproduction is about life and its perpetuation. If there is anything that we have to take seriously from the moral point of view, then surely that is human life. We value life because it is all that we have which is our own. We construct elaborate systems of belief about it; we guard it through rules we have devised for it; it is everything to us. How we begin human life, how we bring it into existence is a matter of the most profound importance.In this course, we will discuss the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as the scientific advances in reproductive technology.