The Oxford handbook of religious perspectives on reproductive ethics

• Titel: The Oxford handbook of religious perspectives on reproductive ethics
• Mitwirkende: Davis, Dena S. [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Dena S. Davis
• Verlagsort: New York, NY, United States of America
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xvi, 573 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063320-2
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063321-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Religion / (s)Ethik / (s)Reproduktionsmedizin
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Oxford handbook of religious perspectives on reproductive ethics. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] |(DLC)2023041602
• RVK-Notation: BK 6000
• K10plus-PPN: 1871519454

Abstract

"As I write this introduction, the third season of the Israeli series, Schtisel, has arrived on Netflix, eagerly awaited by viewers around the world who would never have imagined how caught up they would get by this family drama of four generations of ultra-Orthodox Jews living in Jerusalem. One episode focuses on Ruchami and Hanina, a young couple who have been married for five years, but without children. It turns out that pregnancy and childbirth would threaten Ruchami's life. She is using an IUD, but she keeps threatening to have it removed, risking her life to become a mother. Finally, with great reluctance, Hanina visits the rebbe, the spiritual authority in their community, to discuss the possibility of using a surrogate. They are, says the rebbe, caught between two "non-ideal" situations: surrogacy, normally forbidden, is non-ideal, but so is Ruchami's unhappiness and the possibility that she might go ahead and take the risk, which is also forbidden"--