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In 'Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction', Dr. Cristina Richie uses the term 'medicalized reproduction' (MR) to describe the impact of technology on human reproduction, including from pre-conception gamete retrieval, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and birthing suites. Unlike other areas of high-carbon health care, such as organ transplantation or chemotherapy, medicalized reproduction does not treat, cure, or prevent disease. It is supported by an economized medical industry, and as such, is open for ethical scrutiny. This book considers how technology has fundamentally changed the discussion on biomedical ethics, environmental ethics, and reproductive ethics.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword, by Paul R. Ehrlich -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Approaches to Sustainability and Health Care -- Chapter 1. Environmental Bioethics -- Chapter 2. Green Bioethics -- Part II. Principles of Green Bioethics -- Chapter 3. Distributive Justice -- Chapter 4. Resource Conservation -- Chapter 5. Simplicity -- Chapter 6. Ethical Economics -- Part III. Green Bioethics in Practice -- Chapter 7. The Green Patient -- Chapter 8. The Green Doctor -- Chapter 9. The Green Health-Care Plan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This paper will draw on Catholic resources to examine the impact of population and consumption vis-à-vis reproduction in the developed world as it relates to theological/ moral obligations to the earth. By examining both natural and artificial means of procreation, an assessment of "green" reproduction can be made. I will explore contraception as an option for limiting natural procreation, and the avoidance of assisted reproductive technologies [ARTs] as a way of preventive artificial reproduction. However, both family size and carbon footprint must be scrutinized for ecologically sound consumer practices in accordance with biblical principles to ensure the global magnitude of the ecological crisis is examined; therefore the role of consumption that stems from procreation will also be discussed. The paper will conclude by envisioning alternative parenting options as they relate to ecological practices, and I will assert that all things considered, on the continuum of ecologically oriented reproductive choices, non-biological parenting and thereby a reduction in procreation and consumerist practices is the most ethical and ecological solution to the environmental crisis that surely escalates with each birth.