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EPISODE · Jun 25, 2025 · 22 MIN

The BioEthics of Posthumous Reproduction

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Join our host, Mary Fusillo, for a fascinating look at the ethics and issues behind posthumous reproduction.  With the very sad case of a brain-dead woman being forcibly kept alive via mechanical means for over 15 weeks due to abortion laws in her home state prominent in the news to the use of sperm from non consenting males, our guest, Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein, the Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, will discuss what she sees as issues with Autonomy and Beneficence with posthumous reproduction. AND....take a look at her newest book, "SEMINAL, on Sperm, Health and Politics at this LINK:  SEMINAL, on Sperm, Health and Politics          

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