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Laurie Zoloth on Porcine Organ Transplants for the New York Times
September 16, 2025
Javier Jaén. Courtesty of 'New York Times'
Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, was quoted in a New York Times piece entitled Pig Organ Transplants May Pose a Dilemma for Some Jews and Muslims.
“It’s the ‘yuck factor’ — something we call moral repugnance in bioethics,” said Laurie Zoloth, a professor of religious ethics at the University of Chicago.
“There are things that are permissible but not socially approved, and we’ve been raised to think of them as yucky and socially disturbing,” she added.
Read the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/health/pig-transplants-jews-muslims.html