One of the subjects to be discussed at this year’s Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy is the application of the principles of Scripture to the tremendously complex new bioethical issues which pastors, physicians, and courts must address in the years to come. By rejecting the Bible as the all-sufficient law-word of God when it comes to ethics, modern man is left with no set of transcendant principles to guide him. The result is that there appears to be an inverse relationship between our stunning biomedical technological advancements, on the one hand, and our ability to make sound ethical judgments concerning the wise application of such, on the other.

In the years to come, children will be born whose fathers died more than half a century before their own conception. In addition to creating a genuine fatherhood identity crisis for this new breed of children, numerous other ethical questions are presently before us, not the least of which is the biblical propriety of conceiving a child with the seed of a man with whom a woman is not married. This article details the new trend for men to become fathers long after their death, with women they have never met and with whom they share no marital relationship.