In my area where there is a gigantic bio-tech research university, there are local ads for reproductive tech. They never say that the problems people have in getting pregnant are due to surgical abortion ruining their bodies.
Posted on 04/14/2021 12:07:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Human beings bear the image and likeness of God. They are to be reverenced as sacred. Never are they to be used as a means to an end, not even to satisfy the deepest wishes of an infertile couple. Husbands and wives "make love," they do not "make babies." They give expression to their love for one another, and a child may or may not be engendered by that act of love. The marital act is not a manufacturing process, and children are not products. Like the Son of God himself, we are the kind of beings who are "begotten, not made" and, therefore, of equal status and dignity with our parents.
In IVF, children are engendered through a technical process, subjected to "quality control," and eliminated if found "defective." In their very coming into being, these children are thoroughly subjected to the arbitrary choices of those bringing them into being. In the words of Donum Vitae: "The connection between in vitro fertilization and the voluntary destruction of human embryos occurs too often. This is significant: through these procedures, with apparently contrary purposes, life and death are subjected to the decision of man, who thus sets himself up as the giver of life and death by decree." The document speaks of "the right of every person to be conceived and to be born within marriage and from marriage." To be within and from marriage, conception should occur from the marriage act which by its nature is ordered toward loving openness to life, not from the manipulations of technicians.
The dehumanizing aspects of some of these procedures is evident in the very language associated with them...
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In my area where there is a gigantic bio-tech research university, there are local ads for reproductive tech. They never say that the problems people have in getting pregnant are due to surgical abortion ruining their bodies.
Yeah we should take advice from a religion that is run by a bunch of old men who have “boyfriends”. We were given brains to solve problems and help people and if people need to go thru a medical process to conceive then so be it. Everybody is always whining about abortions and such so I would think they would applaud and support people wanting to bring life into the world.
Are you a medical doctor who is an expert on what alledgly ruins women’s bodies or are you just repeating something you read on the internet.???
There are several interventionist practices short of IVF that are not as ethnically questionable. And Evangelicals are increasingly reviewing their own posture toward things like contraception, birth control, and reproductive technology as well.
Any number of morally acceptable interventions may be used to overcome infertility. For example, surgery can overcome tubal blockages in the male or female reproductive system which prevent fertilization from taking place. Fertility drugs may also be used, with the caution that large multiple pregnancies may put mother and infants at risk. There are also many ways of tracking natural reproductive rhythms to enhance the chances for achieving pregnancy. The Pope Paul VI Institute at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska has been successful in helping couples overcome infertility using natural methods.
Most theologians consider the procedure known as LTOT, or Lower Tubal Ovum Transfer, to be morally acceptable. This involves transferring the wife's egg beyond a blockage in the fallopian tube so that marital relations can result in pregnancy. Another method, more morally controversial, is called GIFT, or Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer. It involves obtaining a husband's sperm following marital relations and aspirating an egg from the wife's ovary. Egg and sperm are placed in a tiny tube separated by an air bubble, and the contents of the tube are then injected into the wife's fallopian tube with the hope that fertilization will occur. Some theologians consider this to be a replacement of the marital act, and therefore immoral. Other theologians see it as assisting the marital act, and therefore permissible. Because the teaching authorities of the Church—the Pope and bishops—have not made a judgment about GIFT, Catholic couples are free to choose it or reject it depending on the guidance of their own conscience. If the teaching authority of the Church should judge the procedure to be immoral, however, GIFT should no longer be used.
- John M. Haas
Any number of morally acceptable interventions may be used to overcome infertility. For example, surgery can overcome tubal blockages in the male or female reproductive system which prevent fertilization from taking place. Fertility drugs may also be used, with the caution that large multiple pregnancies may put mother and infants at risk. There are also many ways of tracking natural reproductive rhythms to enhance the chances for achieving pregnancy. The Pope Paul VI Institute at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska has been successful in helping couples overcome infertility using natural methods.
Most theologians consider the procedure known as LTOT, or Lower Tubal Ovum Transfer, to be morally acceptable. This involves transferring the wife's egg beyond a blockage in the fallopian tube so that marital relations can result in pregnancy. Another method, more morally controversial, is called GIFT, or Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer. It involves obtaining a husband's sperm following marital relations and aspirating an egg from the wife's ovary. Egg and sperm are placed in a tiny tube separated by an air bubble, and the contents of the tube are then injected into the wife's fallopian tube with the hope that fertilization will occur. Some theologians consider this to be a replacement of the marital act, and therefore immoral. Other theologians see it as assisting the marital act, and therefore permissible. Because the teaching authorities of the Church—the Pope and bishops—have not made a judgment about GIFT, Catholic couples are free to choose it or reject it depending on the guidance of their own conscience. If the teaching authority of the Church should judge the procedure to be immoral, however, GIFT should no longer be used.
- John M. Haas
So your considered theological opinion is: “is the technology is there, it’s OK.”
This from the same group of bishops (excepting a a very few good moral ones) who came out as big supporters of Joe Biden the Abortionist in Chief.
My theological opinion is as good as anyone else’s. The point was is that if the technology can help people who want to bring a new life into the world, care for it, and love it then I have no problem with them pursuing whatever means necessary to do so.
So are the evangelicals deciding that contraception and birth control are now bad?? Are they heading towards a handmaiden type of world view where women are simply breeders, kept in submission?? Or do they consider the handmaidens tale as their new operating guidelines?
Sex is sacred...The moment these huge amounts of contraceptive drugs and devices are injected into the roots of our society, they will undoubtedly start to erode and poison the moral sexual ethics that have been woven into our societal DNA by our faith. Much like what befell the Western world after the 1930 Lambeth Conference.
Even at a glance, anyone could see that the unlimited and easy availability of contraceptives...would surely increase infidelity and sexual promiscuity as sex is presented by this multi-billion dollar project as a casual pleasure sport that can indeed come with no strings - or babies - attached.
And of course there are bound to be inconsistencies and failures in the use of these drugs and devices, so health complications could result... - Obianuju Ekeocha
Got it.....evangelicals ban sex except for the chosen leaders who will not derive any pleasure from their anointed tasks.
Oh and ban any contraceptives because they interfere with some mysterious edict about children, fruitful multiplying, etc.
Sheesh.....maybe we should ban evangelicals or at least remind them they a tiny minority of America’s population and don’t get to dictate to the rest of us despite their seemingly need to excert control.
But what do I know....I’m just brainwashed lackey of the alien overlords.
Rd later.
If you are not a person of faith, there’s no incentive I guess. Hypocrites exist in every area. That’s their problem they can’t live up to the teachings of the faith. A good many will. Often after having lived grotesquely promiscuous lifestyles even! - Conversion. As they are even more prone to understand the destructive nature of their former ways.
You bring up Handmaid’s Tale. A TV show. You think Hollywood isn’t filled with hypocrites? Think of all the “feminists” including I’m sure some who are connected to that show in some way — who didn’t bat an eye even while they knew their friend or boss Harvey Weinstein was running his sexually abusive patriarchy?
Sorry, but theology is an academic discipline. You can have all the opinions you want, but if they have no rigorous basis, they are of negligible weight.
Yep and I think the same about so called theologians...negligible weight.
Says the admitted ignoramus.
Well we can’t all be rocket scientists like you rom...😀
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