7/19/24 - Fr. Michael Copenhagen, Melkite - Catholic Bioethics (Part Four)

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In Today's Show

• In regard to the artificially grown tissue that resembles parts of the human brain (cerebral organoids) in current testing. does such a part of the body albeit artificial, have a soul?
• What does the Church think about potentially lifesaving medicine that uses abortion or needs fetal cells? Should or can Catholics use it?
• Some of my family members want to be surrogate mothers. How can I convince them that surrogacy is wrong?
• Is it a sin to have an open house on a Sunday?
• Are stem cells considered acceptable for us by Catholics in medical scenarios?
• My family denied my step grandma water through an IV and she then passed, should I have done more to help prevent that?
• How to ethically collect stem cells?
• Is brain death a fallacy?

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