One of the major risks is the possibility of being raised by two homosexual men or two lesbian women. There is a lot of that going on.
depends upon the interpretation of “people who live in glass houses”
IVF babies ‘risk major diseases’
Polish Cardinal, Former Secretary to Pope JPII: Politicians, Like Pilate, Kill the Truth of the Life of the Unborn
Bishop criticizes reproductive technology’s ‘procreation without sex’
Dignitas Personae
Excommunication for deliberate embryo destruction?
Catholic School Teacher Fired for Having In Vitro
Vatican Summit Looks at Selecting Embryos
62-year-old Redding woman gives birth to 12th child
Actress Brooke Shields kills 140 of her very own Children by undergoing 7 IVF Treatments
Clinic Mix-Up Sparks Fears over IVF H
Risk of marrying or pro-creating with a half sibling....
Contraception has trivialized sexual intercourse.
IVF has trivialized conception.
The culture of death has trivialized LIFE.
I’ve never gotten this desire to make one’s own child if the apparatus given by God is not functional. Plenty of children need to be adopted, too. Total lack of faith, seems to me.
IN GENERAL when using medical science to enable any good thing one has tried and failed to do by means of nature, it’s a blessing not a curse. I would not want to see attempts to fertilize multiple eggs at the same time because the question arises about what to do in case of multiple successes. Trying to bring them all to term would create a problem situation, as noted. But to fertilize one with “artificial” help and then try to implant it should not be a bad thing. What I see here is an attempt, in the name of specific theological objections, to tar the whole field indiscriminately. “Look at all the troubles associated with X” does not equate to “X is ipso facto bad.”
“In Vitro” ?
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I never gave it a thought, as it never applied to me.
I have one daughter, age 30, in the US, and one young son here in the Philippines.
Desire overrides ethics if you’re Ted Bundy.
I must say, the world seemed to work a lot better when we didn’t have the technology to do this kind of stuff. People who could not have kids adopted and usually did a fine job raising kids who had lost their parents.
I mean, if we’re running the risk of defects to a human being because we’re starting the reproduction process in a wacky way, what are the ethical implications? Is that so different to someone doing something else that ups the chances of problems for the baby during their pregnancy?
The answer is adoption imo. If a couple does not want to adopt a child (when they can’t have their own in usual fashion), they probably would not make a very good parent to begin with.
I have a son who was IVF. He was ten pounds at birth (41 weeks) and is a healthy, strong and bright child. Perfectly normal in every way.
On the on the hand, I have a dear friend who had twins conceived IVF. One has medium Asperger’s Syndrome and the other was born with extreme mental retardation and is wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. They were born prematurely at 26 weeks.
What is “cerebral paralysis?”
“Do the risks outweigh the advantages? Or does the (selfish)desire for a child override ethics?”
my emphasis with the parentheses...
A rhetorical question, I’m sure.
I tend to think having other embryos get killed for me would bother me. At least I’d like to think so. And that’d be with my natural parents being involved. As noted, this stuff opens up the possibility for a lot of mischief.
Drawbacks not mentioned:
Growing movement to identify sperm donors.
Two people with dubious ethics raising a child.
The danger of having a child with a half-sibling or other close relative is now minimized by the nationwide status of the cryobanks. They used to be local, but now the stuff is frozen and shipped by FedEx Overnight, so the chances are slimmer.
Adoption of older children is now more acceptable with the growth of Internet support groups. These people become very close through daily discussion of their shared problems. That is the real need: for older children to be given permanent homes, so they don’t have the sword of separation hanging over their head.