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Dr. Haker recently participated in a conversation with ethnographer of reproduction, reproductive medicine, and biotechnology, Tsipy Ivry, regarding the many religious and socio-cultural values and perspectives that are part of a woman’s and parents’ decision-making process during pregnancy. Download an open-access copy of “Socio-Cultural and Religious Views on Prenatal Diagnosis in Israel and Germany: A transnational conversation between Tsipy Ivry and Hille Haker initiated by Anne Weber and Christina Schües,” part of a collection of essays in Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis, Christina Schües (ed.) (transcript, 2022).

Abstract: “This conversation between Tsipy Ivry, Chair of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at Haifa University (Israel), and Hille Haker, Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago (USA), results from an exchange about religious implications and narratives in the context of prenatal diagnosis. Both participants speak from a specific religious background. Their positions are not representative of a whole religious belief system, but reflect their perspective on their own field of research. They shed some light on the different religious values that might organise and inform women’s and parents’ decision-making during pregnancy, especially with regard to choosing NIPT or other diagnostic procedures. Thus, the following should be read as a starting point – not a finalisation – of the discussion, and hopefully invites further conversations.”

Find the open-access book in its entirety, courtesy of transcript-publishing, here.

Haker’s newest monograph:

Toward A Critical Political Ethics: Catholic Ethics and Social Challenges (Schwabe Verlag, 2020)

In her most recent book, Hille Haker pleads for a radical course correction of Catholic social ethics by focusing on three foundational concepts of social ethics: human rights, human dignity and moral responsibility based on the interplay of compassion, solidarity and justice. The author argues for a historically and politically mediated ethics that replaces the natural law ethics. The theoretical reflections of the book are carried out by the practical social-ethical studies: The politicization of individual human rights is examined in the contexts of migration, religious freedom, and criminal justice. Human dignity is spelled out as "vulnerable agency" allowing for a sharp criticism of Catholic sexual morality and neglect of women’s human rights. The book ends with a discussion of the relationship of political theology and political ethics and its social-ethical implications for the further development of a Critical Political Ethics.

Read a review here.

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