Without Moral Limits (Updated Edition): Women, Reproduction, and Medical Technology

by Debra Evans

Throughout history women have traditionally passed along their knowledge of womanhood to their daughters, who in turn entrusted their own daughters with these precious secrets. Sadly, it is a tradition lost. But at what cost? In this powerful book, Debra Evans eloquently and clearly presents what thousands of pages of research women's health care is in crisis. She details how medical "experts" have taken the place of mothers and grandmothers. How the womb has been rendered optional for procreation now that new techniques allow life to begin in a petrie dish. How doctors are "liberating" women from their biological, God-designed destiny and are disregarding medical and moral norms at the expense of their patients' emotions, finances, and bodies. And how, as the traditional domain of women has become the technical domain of doctors, our reproductive competency and dependence on God has increasingly eroded and been sabotaged by our trust in medical professionals and their technology. But Evans also reminds us of a better way. One that understands God's wonderful plan for sexuality and childbearing-- and realizes that therein lies the greatest hope for women.

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1989

Reviews

[Willa Guadalupe Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Four stars says "I really liked this book". I really disliked reading this book actually. This is really a horrifying book. I had some reservations about reproductive technology in the past & now I have more. This is a very clear book but be aware that it is a Catholic book with the outlook & biases one would expect from that viewpoint. This does not detract from the information given, but it does ask the reader to consider prayer or adoption as an option to infertility treatment as an example, though with a good knowledge of the technology one wonders why anyone would subject themselves OR their children to such awful procedures. The author acts as if adoption has no dark side (as an adoptive mother I can tell you it does have it's problems & dangers too) but all in all a book worth reading before you or someone you care about considers any of the reproductive techniques available.