Episode 42: Mary Anne Urlakis interviews Laura Elm, the Founder and Executive Director of Sacred Heart Guardians and Shelter (Sept 28, 2020)

In Episode 42 of Inter Vitam et Mortem: Between Life & Death:
Interviews and Discussion with a Catholic Bioethicist, Dr. Mary
Anne Urlakis interviews Laura Elm, the Founder and Executive
Director of Sacred Heart Guardians and Shelter. Sacred Heart
Guardians and Shelter is a charitable organization guided by a
profound respect for the dignity of every human person from the
first moment of existence and founded with the mission of providing
corporal and spiritual care for the tiniest and most vulnerable
members of the human family. To this end, Sacred Heart Guardians
and Shelter facilitates a dignified, prayerful, Catholic burial for
human embryos who die in Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART)
Laboratories. In this interview, Laura Elm and Dr. Urlakis discuss
the scope of the mission of Sacred Heart Guardians and Shelter and
the unintended consequences of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) which
have prompted this unique and necessary mission. More information
regarding Sacred Heart Guardians and Shelter can be found on their
website at: https://sacredheartguardians.org/services/burial/.
(September 28, 2020)