[Mrs. Don-o]

I might be wrong about this, and if somebody would correct me I would be truly grateful. But as far as I know, thr Catholic Church is the only Church - faith group - believing community on earth which opposes the artificial reproduction technologies: artificial insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, Surrogacy and the rest.

Without the commercial, lab-based breeding technologies, the radical gay and feminist-separatist dream of a non-hetero utopia falls flat into the futility and sterility which it embodies.

Even when used by "straight" people, these technolgies are predicated on the de-personalization of sex and the dehumanization of the "product of conception."

[Ann Archy]

Yes.....but with this Pope, look for that to change!!!

[cotton]

Missouri synod Lutherans share these beliefs. The R.Cs. are not alone.

[SuziQ]

I might be wrong about this, and if somebody would correct me I would be truly grateful. But as far as I know, thr Catholic Church is the only Church - faith group - believing community on earth which opposes the artificial reproduction technologies: artificial insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, Surrogacy and the rest.

I believe you are correct, and the Church opposes these methods for the same reason it opposes homosexuality; because the natural transmission of life is missing. There are some methods of which the Church approves, but I believe they involve the couple working together, not just a woman being implanted in some impersonal way. The Church is against people treating babies as some sort of 'right', and getting them however they can, as opposed to them being a gift of God.