Story here<\/a><\/p>\nI\u2019m no bioethicist or moral theologian, but my guess is that the Church would regard this as immoral or, at best, sketchy. Any actual moral theologians out there who\u2019d like to comment?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s stuff like this that demonstrates the complete and total inadequacy of a \u201cBible only\u201d theology. Before you know it, you will have 5 different appeals to \u201cThe Bible\u201d to justify\/condemn this brand new technology. One person will appeal to the fact that Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham as a surrogate mother, so it\u2019s all fine. Somebody else will appeal to the story of Onan. Still another will cite the condemnation of ripping open women\u2019s wombs. Somebody else will find some verse from revelation and speculate about a soulless baby being born who will grow up to antichrist. Another will say \u201cThe Bible does not command womb transplantation, so it\u2019s evil\u201d while another will say, \u201cThe Bible does not forbid womb transplantation, so it\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just lemme hear what a couple of sober Catholic theologians have to say. The Bible does not directly address womb transplantation. So we need to approach the question by another route.<\/p>\n
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Story here I\u2019m no bioethicist or moral theologian, but my guess is that the Church would regard this as immoral or, at best, sketchy. Any actual moral theologians out there who\u2019d like to comment? It\u2019s stuff like this that demonstrates the complete and total inadequacy of a \u201cBible only\u201d theology. Before you know it, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[526],"class_list":["post-50144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moral-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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