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(This article courtesy of the Arlington Catholic Herald.)
Truly sad what happens when people try to play the role of God.
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But please LOVE and EMBRACE these children, they did not ask to be born by this means.
The angst expressed by children in this article sounds much like that of many adopted children.
Sure, their experience is different, but are they better off than they would be otherwise? In the case of the in vitro kids, would they rather never have existed? Maybe so.
I’m not arguing the pros and cons of in vitro. The point is that we all look around ourselves and yearn for what we perceive is the better life of others.
There is no perfection on this earth. No family, no body, no collection of experiences called “life”.
We all have to take what we’re given and make the best of it.
His documentation about the harms of IVF relates almost entirely to sperm donors. A lot of IVF is for couples who are having trouble to conceive the usual way. My sister did that for two of her babies. Do we know what percent of IVF pregnancies use either eggs or sperm from someone other than the parent?
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I wonder if any of them suffer from the “why me” syndrome.
After all, many of their brothers and sisters don’t make it out of the embryonic state.
I do NOT support IVF, ok, and I don’t know what these kids may be facing. However, there are plenty of babies conceived in war and rape, in one-night stands, etc. And there are plenty of kids who grow up not knowing who their dads are, or worse, knowing who they are and not being parented well.
These children have the gift of life to spend in any way they choose. Hopefully it is not all spent whining.
(Is that too harsh?)
My mom has long said, “There aren’t any illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.” While I understand the desire for kids (we have five, and weren’t supposed to be able to have any, went long periods of time trying, with no success), as Catholics, we don’t believe in IVF. The kids written about here, who are the result of sperm donations, have inadvertently been placed in a terrible state. Through no fault of their own, they must question the circumstances of their birth, often as small children. Like the one young man whose mother was hurt when he said something. He did nothing wrong.
And I really do have sympathy for those desiring kids, but unable to have them. Not just because of my personal life. One of my brothers and his wife have fought for years with endometriosis, and finally adopted two kids. They’re great, the kids are great, all are happy. It took a long time and a lot of effort, but my goodness, it was worth it.
My thought about the adults/young adults who are questioning their existence because of IVF’s involvement in their birth: introduce them to the Church. And for those who are of the various denominations, my message is essentially the same. Remind these children, who deserve the same love we share with our own kids, that their heavenly Father loves them, and that regardless of what they see of how they came to be here, He has a purpose for them, and that they are loved.
this article confuses multiple issues.
disease issues which have yet to be consistently proven as direct to IVF.
mental issues when it is an unwed mother buying a child as a life accessory
and those normal couples who use the procedure to produce their own genetic children.