Catholic Answers Live - Bioethics

Questions Covered: 

 

• 08:13 – What is the Catholic viewpoint on gender transformation processes? 
• 15:47 - I wanted to know if being gay is a sin? 
• 22:47 - When will a Covid vaccine come out that doesn’t use aborted baby parts AT ALL (not in testing, not in the actual vaccine)?   
• 25:07 - I’m asking about the morality of using medicine that contains the tissue from umbilical cords in it. Does this tissue come from aborted babies? 
• 34:00 - What is the Church’s view on circumcision in light of the answer just given about not mutilating our bodies? 

• 39:02 - Is homosexulaity considered a cross? Do they get special graces from having to bear this cross? 
• 44:03 - I am 6 months pregnant and I have been looking into consuming the placenta. Is this ethical? 
• 47:13 - What is the Church’s teaching on terminating a Parasitic twin? 
• 50:15 - At what point did God “ordain” and bless the sexual act? What makes it different or “raises it higher” than a natural impulse of ours such as eating?