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The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

• Almond, Brenda. The Fragmenting Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Alpern, Kenneth D. (ed.). The Ethics of Reproductive Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Becker, Gay. The Elusive Embryo: How Men and Women Approach New Reproductive Technologies.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
•  Beller Fritz K. and Weir Robert F. (ed.). The Beginning of Human Life. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
• Chadwick, Ruth (ed.). Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1994.
• Cohen, Cynthia B. New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Coleman, Stephen. The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses: Implications for Reproduction and Abortion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
•  Cook, Rebecca, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla. Reproductive Health and Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Davis, Dena S. Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children's Futures. New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Deech, Ruth and Anna Smajdor.  From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• "Donum Vitae" [an exposition of the Roman Catholic position].  Origins 16, no. 40 (19 March 1987): 698-710. ***
• Dooley, Dolores and Panagiota Dalla-Vorgia. The Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies: Cases and Questions. Berghahn Books, 2003.
• Edwards, J. Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Evans, Debra. Without Moral Limits: Women, Reproduction, and Medical Technology. Wheaton: Crossway, 2000. ***
• Fenwick, Lyn. Private Choices, Public Consequences: Reproductive Technology and the New Ethics of Conception, Pregnancy, and Family. New York: Dutton Adult, 1998.
• Ford, Norman M. The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.
• Glover, Jonathan. Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Gordon, Jon W. The Science and Ethics of Engineering the Human Germ Line: Mendel's Maze. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss, 2003.
• Gosden R. Designer Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology. London: Victor Gollancz, 1999.
• Hall, Amy Laura. Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. ***
• Harris, John and Soren Holm (eds.). The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice, and Regulation.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Harwood, Karey A. The Infertility Treadmill: Feminist Ethics, Personal Choice, and the Use of Reproductive Technologies.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael. A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine). Netherlands: Springer, 2007.
• Henig, Robin Marantz. Pandora's Baby: How the First Test-tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution. Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2006.
• Hui, Edwin C.  At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002. ***
• Inhorn, Marcia C and Frank van Balen, eds.  Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
• “Instruction Dignitas Personae On Certain Bioethical Questions.” Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, September 8, 2008. ***
• Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Heredity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
• Kilner, John F., Paige C. Cunningham, and W. David Hager (eds.). The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies, and the Family. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. ***
• McGee G. The Perfect Baby: Parenthood in the New World of Cloning and Genetics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
• Melo-Martín, Inmaculada de. Making Babies: Biomedical Technologies, Reproductive Ethics, and Public Policy. Netherlands: Springer, 1998.
• Mullin, Amy. Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Mundy, Liza. Everything Conceivable: How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World. New York: Anchor, 2008.
• O'Donovan, Oliver.  Begotten or Made? Human Procreation and Medical Technique . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Peters, Philip G. How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Rae, Scott B. Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996. ***
• Rae, Scott B. The Ethics of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood: Brave New Families? Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994. ***
• Robertson, John. Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
• Ryan, Maura A. Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction: The Cost of Longing. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
• Spar, Debora. The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
• Stewart, Gary P., William Cutreer, Timothy J. Demy, Donal P. O’Mathuna, Paige C. Cunningham, John F. Kilner, and Linda K. Bevington. Basic Questions on Reproductive Technology: When Is It Right to Intervene? Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998. ***
• Stock, Gregory and John Campbell (eds.). Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Strong, Carson. Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine: A New Framework. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
• Waters, Brent. Reproductive Technology: Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship.  Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2001. ***
• Wilkinson, Stephen. Choosing Tomorrow’s Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Out of Print

• Cameron, Nigel M. de S., ed. Embryos and Ethics.   Edinburgh, Scotland:  Rutherford House, 1987.
• DeMarco, Donald. Biotechnology and the Assault on Parenthood. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991. ***
• Hildth, E and D Mieth (eds.). In Vitro Fertilisation in the 1990s: Towards Medical, Social, and Ethical Evaluation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 1998.

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Updated November 2009