Event Highlights: French Catholic Mobilization During Revision of French Bioethical Laws: 2018-2021
This lecture by Séverine Mathieu – French Catholic Mobilization During Revision of French Bioethical Laws: 2018-2021 – took place at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Thursday, February 10, 2022. Mathieu outlines how the moral debate over assisted reproductive technology (ART) overlaps with the legislative debate, creating a bridge in the secular state, offering religion a pulpit in the political arena.
Séverine Mathieu is a sociologist, professor and Research Director at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (France), and a member of Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités CNRS-UMR 8582. Her main research topics are assisted reproductive technology (ART), ethics, religion and filiation; family, parenthood, kinship and transmission; and representation of the embryo among persons in the ART.