The patriarch of medical ethics explains why some accepted ethical values need to catch up with the science of human reproduction and why newer reproductive methods can be more "natural" and humane than those they replace.

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This riveting philosophical debate pits Christian apologist, Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, against the situation ethicist, Joseph Fletcher, to grapple with the absoluteness of moral principles.