How the Political Becomes Private: In Vitro Fertilization and the Catholic Church in Poland

The Polish debate on in vitro fertilization (IVF) is extremely heated and highly politicized. The hierarchs of the Catholic vehemently oppose the use of IVF. In this text, I present the Church’s approach to IVF. Basing on the documentary film, Three Conversations about Life, and ethnographic researc...

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Autor principal: Radkowska-Walkowicz, Magdalena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5904224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28819883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0480-3
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description The Polish debate on in vitro fertilization (IVF) is extremely heated and highly politicized. The hierarchs of the Catholic vehemently oppose the use of IVF. In this text, I present the Church’s approach to IVF. Basing on the documentary film, Three Conversations about Life, and ethnographic research, as well as an analysis of Vatican documents and official statements of Polish bishops, I show how the positions of clergy might influence private lives. I indicate series of tensions associated with the “politics of morality” of the Catholic Church and the daily lives of people, who have children thanks to IVF.
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spelling pubmed-59042242018-04-24 How the Political Becomes Private: In Vitro Fertilization and the Catholic Church in Poland Radkowska-Walkowicz, Magdalena J Relig Health Original Paper The Polish debate on in vitro fertilization (IVF) is extremely heated and highly politicized. The hierarchs of the Catholic vehemently oppose the use of IVF. In this text, I present the Church’s approach to IVF. Basing on the documentary film, Three Conversations about Life, and ethnographic research, as well as an analysis of Vatican documents and official statements of Polish bishops, I show how the positions of clergy might influence private lives. I indicate series of tensions associated with the “politics of morality” of the Catholic Church and the daily lives of people, who have children thanks to IVF. Springer US 2017-08-17 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5904224/ /pubmed/28819883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0480-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5904224/
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