[Mrs. Don-o]

Nobody is wishing her out of existence. Children are conceived every day in ways that are an insult to human dignity --- through seduction, adultery, rape, prostitution, sperm-vendor, IVF, what-have-you --- and every one of them has a right to go on living, to be nurtured, to be valued.

Every human life has a sacred dignity from the moment of conception; but some methods of conception are intrinsically de-dignifying; through the parents' mishap, fault, or failing, they fall short of what a human child has a right to.

We can welcome all babies, without saying that depersonalized actions ---- promiscuous sex, adultery, rape, prostitution, sperm-vendor, IVF --- are OK because they sometimes produce babies. To flourish whole-heartedly, a child needs a Mom and a Dad who are married and who love their child and each other. How radical is that?

Some babies are fatherless by chance. No babies should be fatherless by choice.

[maica]

No babies should be fatherless by choice


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My point exactly, and the point of the writer, who so eloquently - at the age of eighteen - is willing to use her own history to illustrate the point.

[rintense]

Explain to me how IVF is an insult to human dignity.