Church of England2019-09-252019-09-252015-10-22http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/228885"The development of medical techniques for assisting conception has led Christians to think carefully about the connection which needs to be made - morally rather than scientifically - between marriage (as understood by Christians), sexual intercourse, conception, birth, and the nurturing and parenting of children. In earlier times it was enough to rely on a fairly simple notion that what was ‘natural’ was ‘right’. It seemed to follow that anything which could be judged ‘unnatural’ (or even, perhaps, unusual) was wrong."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderbioethicschurchhuman fertilisationembryologyChristianReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsBioethicsChristian denominationsAnglicanPreprint