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by John Strege

When John and Marlene Strege learned they could not have a child, they asked the question that would change their lives: Can frozen embryos be adopted? The answer not only gave them their beloved daughter Hannah, it drew all three into a political spotlight they never expected.

https://www.amazon.com/Snowflake-Named-Hannah-Ethics-Adoption/dp/0825425573 

by Francis Etheredge

Is bioethics a technical specialization or a profound expression of human being? In answering this question, Etheredge searches old and new sources that help us to understand who we are: both personally and objectively – gazing into the mysterious depths of human personhood.

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Person-Bioethical-Word/dp/1950108406

by Francis Etheredge

A book to plunge into the debate on the beginning of life, filled with a variety of arguments both simple and more complex, drawing on reason, evidence and expert human biologists, the wisdom of Scripture, the Fathers and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

https://www.amazon.com/Conception-Icon-Beginning-Francis-Etheredge/dp/1950108244 

by Jerome Lejeune

An eminent geneticist testifies on when human life begins.

https://www.amazon.com/Concentration-Can-Eminent-Geneticist-Testifies/dp/0898703948

by Samuel B. Condic and Maureen L. Condic

This book establishes the status of the human embryo using philosophical reasoning and available science to support the claim that a human being is present from the moment of fertilization.

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Embryos-Beings-Scientific-Philosophical/dp/0813230233

by Russell D. Moore

The doctrine of adoption―God’s decision to adopt sinful men and women into his family―stands at the heart of Christianity. In this popular-level and practical manifesto, Russell Moore encourages Christians to adopt children and to help other Christian families to do the same.

https://www.amazon.com/Adopted-Life-Priority-Adoption-Christian/dp/1433549212

Edited by Juan De Dios Vial Correa and Elio Sgreccia

The problem of the identity and status of the human embryo is intimately related to the beginning of a person’s life, a topic which has been much debated  and requires deep reflection and precision in order to help bioethicists, lawyers, doctors, and biologists.

https://www.amazon.com/Identity-status-human-embryo-Proceedings/dp/8820924706

by Liberia Editrice Vaticana

Here are the essential elements of our faith presented in the most understandable manner, enabling everyone to read and know what the Church professes, celebrates, lives, and prays.

https://www.amazon.com/Catechism-Catholic-Libreria-Editrice-Vaticana/dp/1601376499

by The Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers

This book is a  definitive guide on bioethics in the Church. Updated from the 1995 Charter, it covers a wide range of issues in medical ethics, including end-of-life issues, reproduction, and moral questions connected to the advance of medical technology.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Charter-Health-Care-Workers/dp/0935372695

by Pope John Paul II

Reaffirming the "greatness and inestimable value of human life," Pope John Paul II discusses in this encyclical letter the present-day legal, ethical, and moral threats to life.

https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Life-Evangelium-Vitae/dp/1555863167

by William E. May

What the Catholic Church teaches - and why - on issues of euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, genetic counseling, assisted suicide, living wills, persistent vegetative state, organ transplants, and more.

https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Bioethics-Gift-Human-Life/dp/1612787029

Edited by Sarah-Vaughan Brakman and Darlene Fozard Weaver

This set of essays is a careful consideration, from a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tradition, of embryo adoption. It sheds light on this question and introduces the relevant general principles that guide Catholic moral thought.

https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Embryo-Adoption-Catholic-Tradition/dp/1402062109

Edited by Jason T. Eberl

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research and will be a valuable resource for scholars in bioethics who will benefit from the nuanced arguments offered based on the latest research.

https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Controversies-Catholic-Bioethics-Philosophy/dp/3319857401

by Francis Etheredge

The author explains what is probably one of the greatest transformations in the whole of nature: the changing outward expression of human development that shows the identity of the person from conception.

https://www.amazon.com/ABCQ-Conceiving-Conception-Francis-Etheredge/dp/1956715096

by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen

In this timely consideration of the nature and rights of human embryos, the authors make a persuasive case that we as a society should neither condone nor publicly fund embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

https://www.amazon.com/Embryo-Defense-Robert-P-George/dp/0385522827