[NYer]

Thirty years of studying hormonal changes in a woman’s cycle and the underlying causes of infertility have culminated in an alternative way to treat infertility that does not create life outside of the body. NaPro Technology has great results as well. Couples who’ve failed with IVF have succeeded with NaPro Technology, and since it treats the underlying cause of infertility, it allows for couples to get pregnant again and again.

Today, it’s very easy to forget the moral issues with IVF, especially when we see the adorable face of an IVF success story. There is no doubt that new life is beautiful and compelling.

But we cannot continue to ignore the injustice borne by the embryos who aren’t lucky enough to make it into their mother’s wombs. Considered property, not people, many of these frozen embryos continue to be stuck in a very tangled web indeed.

Read the entire article; it is mind boggling!

Catholic ping!

[I want the USA back]

This is an abomination. No one owns them. They are little humans-in-development.

[Tax-chick]

Loeb desperately wants a family and has offered to take complete financial and legal responsibility to hire a surrogate and raise the girls on his own.

I applaud his desire to do right by his children, although it's unfortunate that (a) a gestator would have to be hired and (b) the children would be forever deprived of their own mother.

It would all have worked out better if his desperate desire for a family had led him to marry a virtuous and healthy woman, instead of the course of action he chose.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I remember the landmark Marysville TN frozen human embryo case: when they are wanted, they are more priceless and precious than anything in the world; when they are unwanted, they are like a can of paint in the back of the garage: a disposal problem.

It makes me sick that Catholics get involved in this ugly IVF thing, totally unknowing or uncaring that the practice is completely forbidden in Catholicism. Ignorant or heedless, they involve themselves in situations which are a total affront to Almighty God and which grieve any honest heart.

Let me add my salute to Naprotechnology, which really DOES honestly address the challenge of female infertility, which is much more successful that IVF, which costs a whole lot less, which never treats the embryonic child as a product, but always as a person; and which no religion or ethical system on earth has any objection to.

There is now hope for husbands and wives who long to have a baby naturally, through their own loving embrace. Women suffering from infertility have a right to know about Naprotech./a>

[DuncanWaring]

As an aside to this issue, the rise in homosexual “marriage” will also add to this problem in that pairs of male homosexuals are arranging for surrogate women to produce the children they themselves obviously cannot produce, furthering the commoditization of humans.