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To: NYer

Isn't the official position of the church that embryos cannot be fertilized and frozen like this, because most of them never DO get implanted and therefore they are virtually "killed", even if they might happen to exist in a frozen state until they become non-viable?


34 posted on 11/15/2006 6:00:52 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Isn't the official position of the church that embryos cannot be fertilized and frozen like this, because most of them never DO get implanted and therefore they are virtually "killed", even if they might happen to exist in a frozen state until they become non-viable?

Yes.

Neither is it valid to argue, as a justification for sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive, that a lesser evil is to be preferred to a greater one, or that such intercourse would merge with procreative acts of past and future to form a single entity, and so be qualified by exactly the same moral goodness as these. Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (18)—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong

HUMANAE VITAE

35 posted on 11/15/2006 6:06:39 PM PST by NYer (Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to Heaven. St. Rose of Lima)
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