The possibility of embryo adoption has existed for over two decades and raises some questions that people really do not know how to answer. Over half a century ago, when the first child conceived through in vitro fertilization was born, Cardinal Albino Luciani, who within days would become Pope John Paul I, publicly welcomed her into the world without endorsing artificial fertilization. Today, there are over one million frozen embryos in cryostorage in the United States, and the question in Dignitas personae 19 on “what to do with them” is still unresolved. The legal status of the human embryo should be a person – some states have passed laws pertaining to this – but there is still a great deal of confusion about the morality of both embryo transfer and embryo adoption. This book was written in the hope of clarifying some of the ethical issues in the search for a moral solution.
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Dr. Elizabeth Rex earned her MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy (Thomistic Ethics) from the University of Navarra and is currently pursuing her Th.D. in Theology at Pontifex University. She is the President of The Children First Foundation, a charitable and educational organization dedicated to promoting Adoption as a positive and loving choice for unwanted unborn children, including unwanted frozen embryos. Dr. Rex has taught Bioethics at Holy Apostles College & Seminary and was an Adjunct Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Dr. Rex has spoken at major conferences and is a frequent contributor to National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly regarding the moral arguments in the embryo adoption debate.
Dr. Charles Robertson earned his MA in History at the University of Saskatchewan and his MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies in Houston, Texas. His research on embryo adoption/rescue has been published in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Thomist, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. He has also published research on the history of the Thomist commentary tradition in Nova et Vetera and The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas. He currently resides in Saskatoon, Canada, with his wife and eight children.
Peter A. Redpath (retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University, New York) is author, editor, co-editor of dozens of books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, since 1980 he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. Among his many accomplishments, he is CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC; former Founder and Chair of the Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom for Holy Apostles College and Seminary (USA); an Affiliate Scholar with the University Abat Oliba Graduate program (Barcelona, Spain). Peter is also co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and the International Etienne Gilson Society, the Adler-Aquinas Institute, and the Angelicum Academy and Great Books Academy homeschool programs (both founded with the help of Mortimer J. Adler); former executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for the Dutch publisher Editions Rodopi, B.V., and special series editor for Rodopi and Brill/Rodopi. Presently, he is a member of the editorial board of Brill Publishing’s Philosophy and Religion (PAR) series, a member of the Advisory Board of the Lyceum Institute, and Officer in Charge of Medieval Christian Philosophy and Academic Liaison to the Holy See for Global Scholarly Publications. For a list of articles published on the Catholic World Report, see 
Agustín Udías, nacido en Santander (España) en 1935, jesuita, catedrático emérito de Geofísica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ha ocupado puestos de investigación y docencia en la Universidad de California, Berkeley; Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main y Universidad de Barcelona. Entre sus libros: con Julio Mezcua Fundamentos de geofísica (Alianza, 1997), Principles of Seismology (Cambridge University Press, 1999, 2018), Historia de la Física. De Arquímedes a Einstein (Síntesis, 2004), Ciencia y religión. Dos visiones del mundo (Sal Terrae, 2010), Jesuit Contribution to Science. Una historia (Springer, 2015) y Los Ejercicios Espirituales con Teilhard de Chardin (Mensajero, 2022). Ha publicado artículos científicos sobre el mecanismo de origen de los terremotos, la sismicidad y la sismotectónica de la región mediterránea, y sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión, y la historia de los científicos jesuitas.
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