Part Four - Issues in Care for the Beginning of Life

DISCUSSION/REFLECTION QUESTIONS

• Upon what does the Church ground its teaching about reproductive technologies and the beginning of life?
• What is your personal response to this teaching? What difference does this make to your work? To your life?
• What do you mean when you use the term "sanctity of life?"
• What do you understand by the covenant of marriage?
• Why is the Church opposed to heterologous reproduction? In-vitro fertilization?
• What kinds of prenatal diagnoses are acceptable? Under what conditions?
• What does Church teaching permit when it comes to problematic pregnancies?