Bioethics Q&A: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Dr. Brick Lantz, CMDA’s Vice President of Advocacy and Bioethics, joins host Dr. Mike Chupp for another Q&A exploring difficult ethics questions facing Christian healthcare professionals. From pronouns and conscience concerns to IVF and end-of-life care, they discuss how you can respond when a patient’s request or an employer’s expectations conflict with your faith and medical judgment, considering what it means to hold to the truth while providing excellent care and loving the person in front of you.

Chapters

• (00:00:08) - Introduction and Episode Overview
• (00:01:33) - Chatting About Brick's Alaska Adventure
• (00:03:07) - Transgender Pronouns and Conscience Issues
• (00:07:55) - Compassion vs. Complicity in Patient Care
• (00:10:29) - Positive vs Negative Autonomy and Trust in Medicine
• (00:13:26) - When Employers Demand Participation in Objectionable Care
• (00:16:32) - Refusing Care Wrongly: The World Magazine Case
• (00:18:25) - Abortion, Ectopic Pregnancy, and Maternal Risk Debates
• (00:21:38) - The Lindsey Clancy Case and Cultural Loss of Sanctity
• (00:22:52) - IVF Ethics and Restorative Reproductive Medicine
• (00:28:14) - CMDA Resources and Special Announcement
• (00:29:44) - Genetic Testing: Healing vs Selection
• (00:33:00) - Disability, Imago Dei, and the Value of Life
• (00:38:35) - Physician-Assisted Suicide and Dying Well
• (00:43:26) - Lessons from COVID-19 and Public Health Trust
• (00:49:19) - Risk, Compassion, and Serving in Danger
• (00:53:28) - What Is a Human Being? The Core of Bioethics
• (00:56:02) - Closing Thoughts and Call to Engage the Church
• (00:58:07) - Episode Wrap-up and Next Week's Preview

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