Surprise, surprise. Bad things happen when you decide to buck nature.
I know someone who just had triplets, naturally. People r shocked at how healthy and big they r. They came home from the hospital within days with no machines. I just know it is b/c they were part of God’s plan. Triplets seem to run in this family.
so humans playing G-d is not a good thing after all; who’d a thunk it was ever true /sarc
The Catholic Church has definitively taught all artificial contraception and conception is morally wrong based on its theology and on principle. As always, eventually that two thousand year old Church is proven true and wise by even the consequences of doing that which she teaches is wrong. Can’t flim flam mother nature.
I would expect all kinds of problems to surface as a result of IVF.
To begin with, the natural way of conceiving weeds out defective ova and sperm. If a person cannot produce normal ova or sperm, they have a genetic flaw that, realistically speaking, should *not* be preserved in future children. Some IVF methods involve directly injecting sperm DNA into an ovum—directly bypassing a strong element of natural selection.
If the sperm or ova are so genetically flawed that they cannot fuse naturally to produce an embryo, I would also expect a high chance of other genetic flaws in these cells. Even with natural conception, the incidence of genetically flawed embryos is quite high—over 90% are incapable of further growth. I do not see how bypassing the natural selection mechanisms can possibly produce children who are as healthy as naturally conceived children.
Furthermore, by enabling people to reproduce despite genetic flaws that prevent them from naturally conceiving, these flaws are not selected out of the population; I would expect to see a higher proportion of people who are incapable of conceiving naturally with each subsequent generation. Taken to the extreme, we could see a world where the poor people who cannot afford assisted reproduction are healthier in all respects than the affluent people who can afford those interventions.
That old commercial comes to mind—it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
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