Author: unitedfamilies

Babies, Made to Order: The New York Times Sounds the Reproductive Technology Alarm

In his “Interesting Times” podcast earlier this year, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat gave his audience a profound opportunity to see where in vitro reproductive technology is leading us, and wondered aloud whether it might replace natural, marital procreation. His guest was Silicon Valley entrepreneur Noor Siddiqui, who was a Thiel Fellow at age seventeen. She articulated a moral imperative for that displacement.

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A Tale of Two Constitutions

Swiss philosopher Denis de Rougemont, in La Part du Diable (The Devil’s Share), first published in 1944, de Rougemont states: “Here lies the new tragedy: we have foreseen everything against a future Hitler, nothing against his absence, which is nevertheless certain. And this is the Devil’s opportunity for tomorrow.” He goes on to say: “The theological naiveté of our century is one of the most considerable advantages of the new barbarism.”

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