title: Invited commentary on 'Robert G Edwards and the Roman Catholic Church'.
abstract: The objectification of procreation and its products - i.e. their separation from their normal human context and meaning - is an inevitable consequence of assisted reproduction technology. This should be a matter for serious ethical reflection, for we are all diminished if becoming a mother or a father, or carrying a child, or if children themselves are stripped of their profound human meanings.
authors.affiliation: Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McGovern
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000941:ethics*