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Should people with such problems be condemned for trying? >>>

If they are Catholic Yes, If we intend to be a pro-life nation, YES. That's why we have adoption.

I was told at the conference that as many as 20 eggs each time are fertilized. Most websites/clinics do not go into the issue as to how many eggs are fertilized.

And what they are doing now is taking oocytes out of the ovaries from ABORTED GIRLS!!

Here in this article the bishop uses the ratio of 24 (total embryos):1 (baby being born) Only God knows the total number of his Children Murdered.

There are an average of 24 embryos destroyed or frozen in order for one IVF baby to be born. The moral principle violated by this procedure is the most fundamental of all moral tenets: one can never do an evil in order that good may come of it. Here, the sacrifice of the 24 babies in order to get one or two to grow into healthy children is so wrong that it overrides the infertile couple's right to have a child. The couple I met was aware of that moral principle and could not in conscience participate in such an act.

I was told at the conference that as many as 20 eggs each time are fertilized.

Yes, each time they extract a bunch of eggs, they fertilize about 20. But not all 20 are immediately implanted or destroyed. Instead, most are kept frozen so that if none of the first batch 'take' (or if the couple wants more children after the first batch) a technician can simply unfreeze a few more eggs without having to start all over with the painful and expensive extraction process.

Were it not for the facts that (1) extracting a batch of eggs is a difficult operation, but it's not much harder to extract many as to extract a few, and (2) unfertilized eggs don't keep "on ice" the way sperm or embryos do, I would suspect researchers wouldn't bother fertilizing more eggs than they were going to implant at a time.

BTW, suppose a couple made a commitment that, when they went for an IVF treatment, they would have all their embryos implanted (in small groups) in whatever time-frame was required, and raise as many or as few children as they ended up with as a result; what would be the moral issues then? Presumably they'd avoid starting out with 50...