Obviously, IVF eliminates the marriage act as the means of achieving pregnancy, instead of helping it achieve this natural end. The new life is not engendered through an act of love between husband and wife, but by a laboratory procedure performed by doctors or technicians. Husband and wife are merely sources for the "raw materials" of egg and sperm, which are later manipulated by a technician to cause the sperm to fertilize the egg.
Invariably several embryos are brought into existence; only those which show the greatest promise of growing to term are implanted in the womb. The others are simply discarded or used for experiments. This is a terrible offense against human life. While a little baby may ultimately be born because of this procedure, other lives are usually snuffed out in the process.
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Let’s all send this to the Young Adult coordinators in our parishes.
Let’s all send this to the Young Adult coordinators in our parishes.
I think it is wrong yet had no significant catechesis in my entire life. But I guess those who don’t get it intuitively need to be taught.
I’d say the biggest problem with IVF is the fact that the “extras” are either thrown out, frozen for years, or experimented on.
So you take an egg from the married woman and her husband donates his sperm because for some reason the woman couldn’t conceive the normal way. So this is somehow morally wrong to some people?
I just skimmed the replies, so I apologize if someone mentioned this already.
In addition to the issues regarding the embryos, etc, there is also the issue of how the husband and wife create the child. It is not unitive. The child is made in a petri dish.