#641: Compensation, Curing, and Reproduction
On whether IVF counts as 'medicine.'
At the outset of his discussion of assisted reproductive technologies in Begotten or Made?, Oliver O’Donovan considers whether the fact that they do not ‘heal’ a couple’s reproductive capacities is an adequate reason to reject them. As he writes:
It is not a curative accomplishment, but a compensatory one. Does this make it improper? If we were to say so…
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