UPDATE: Due to circumstances beyond our control, tonight’s talk by Dr. Janet Smith has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule at a later date.
STEUBENVILLE, OH— What is wrong with artificial insemination? How does in vitro fertilization conflict with the Catholic Church’s teaching on human life and marriage?
Dr. Janet Smith, who holds the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, will address these and other questions about the ethics of reproductive technologies and the Catholic Church’s stance on them in her talk, “Designer Genes: Problems With Reproductive Technologies.” Scheduled for 8:00 p.m., Thursday, January 15, the talk will be held at Franciscan University of Steubenville in the Tony and Nina Gentile Gallery, J.C. Williams Center. This talk is free and open to the public.
Smith is the author of Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later and is also the editor of Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader. She currently serves as a consulter to the Pontifical Council on the Family as well as on other Vatican commissions and has appeared on Fox Morning News, CNN, and many shows on EWTN.
Smith’s talk is part of the Distinguished Speakers Series at Franciscan University and is cosponsored by the University’s Institute of Bioethics.
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