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.

Reproductive Ethics

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• Almond, Brenda. The Fragmenting Family. NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Becker, Gay. The Elusive Embryo: How Men and Women Approach New Reproductive Technologies . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
• Beller FK, Weir RF. The Beginning of Human Life. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. 
  
• Cameron, Nigel M. de S., ed. Embryos and Ethics.   Edinburgh, Scotland:  Rutherford House, 1987.
• Chadwick, Ruth (ed.). Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control. NJ: Routledge, 1994.
  
• Cook, Rebecca, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla. Reproductive Health and Human Rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.
• Davis, Dena S. Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children's Futures. NJ: Routledge, 2000.
• DeMarco, Donald. Biotechnology and the Assault on Parenthood. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991.
  
• "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. NJ: 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. 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. NY: 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.
  
• 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. 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.
• Hildth, E and D Mieth (eds.). In Vitro Fertilisation in the 1990s: Towards Medical, Social, and Ethical Evaluation .  Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
  
• 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: University of California Press, 2002.
  
• Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1985.
  
• 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. [A Horizons in Bioethics Series Book from The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity]
  
• 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). Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Mundy, Liza. Everything Conceivable: How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World. 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. NY: 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 University Press. http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp? title=123
• Ryan, Maura A. Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction: The Cost of Longing. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003.
• Spar, Debora. The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
• Stewart, Gary P., et al. 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. NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Strong, Carson. Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine: A New Framework. Yale University Press, 1997.
• Waters, Brent. Reproductive Technology: Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2001.
  
• Whitney, G. “Reproduction Technology for a New Eugenics.” http://www.eugenics.net/ papers/gw002.html. London. 1999.