[NYer]

I don't think many of the couples incapable of having children through normal means (I'm friends with one such couple) would appreciate having this celibate telling them that their unfulfilled hopes and yearnings for a child to cherish and raise are simply a "subjective desire" for a "consumer product".

Having once been there, I can empathize with your friends. However, procreation does not belong in the backroom of a science lab. The desire to have children is perfectly natural but how many lives must be destroyed in order to accomplish one's personal gratification? My husband and I suffered the anguish of infertility and then chose life through adoption. We entrusted the decision to God. As St. Paul reminds us: "If God is for you, who can be against you?" God responded by sending us a beautiful little girl. Her adoption was domestic and gratis.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The desire to have children is perfectly natural but how many lives must be destroyed in order to accomplish one's personal gratification?

Bishop Wenski's opposition to technological solutions for reproduction does not seem limited to the destruction of human embryos - even when no lives are lost in processes like IVF (which is what everyone is aiming for), he will still object to what many childless couples consider the greatest miracle of their lives.