Posted on 08/10/2011 3:19:23 PM PDT by Morgana
No, it's not an abomination. That is like calling driving a car or owning a gun an abomination.
If you drive drunk and kill a mom and her baby in a stroller, that is an abomination. If you get angry and go shoot your wife and her parents and little niece, that is an abomination.
If you are helped to start a family with IVF, and you don't either use all your embryos or donate each and every embryo you don't use to a loving couple who would give them a chance at life, that would be an abomination.
There is nothing wrong with having medical help to create a family. This has brought people so much joy. Give each embryo a chance of life (50% or more of them are always going to fail because only 50% or less of all embryos, whether created by sex or put together in the lab, will be euploid, or chromosomally normal enough to grow into a 2nd trimester baby -- this is why so many times, a conception will not result in pregnancy or will result in a 1st trimester miscarriage).
Many couples desperate to have children have been helped by either IVF or by adopting/receiving donated embryos from generous couples who had some they could not use themselves.
Thank you and the same to you! Luckily so far it hasn’t been too hot here (SoCal), but I figure we will be having some heatwaves in Sept and Oct when I will be sweatily b-feeding... :)
My other 3 were all winter babies and that was much nicer, I will agree.
Your twins must be better than my twins. My twins started fighting in the womb and still barely tolerate each other. They don’t even look like each other. They are both great kids and have done exceptionally well in school and get along well with other. My theory is that since there is no natural leader, they just keep trying to dominate the other sibling.
My kids would disagree with you.
My knowledge of Catholic doctrine is less than complete, but I believe it recognizes that it is better for one person to die than three.
It’s not like the baby that is chosen to die is going to live in any case.
YMMV
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