If we’re just matter, why do we matter? Modern bioethics is built on a question most people never stop to ask: What is a human being?

Because the answer to that question isn’t abstract, it determines how we treat the most vulnerable people among us. From IVF and embryo selection, to assisted suicide and end-of-life care, to gene editing and transhumanism. We are already making decisions about who counts and who doesn’t.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ashley Fernandes, a physician, bioethicist, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at the Ohio State University, College of Medicine-- to expose the deeper philosophical divide shaping modern medicine:

👉 Materialism: where the human person is reduced to biology, function, and preference

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