embryo adoption

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hey CAF!

The topic for my end of the year moral theology project is adoption of human embryos. I’ve already done some research and gathered a few articles on this (although I could use a few more, if anyone knows of any good ones) But for my project I also need individual opinions on this problematic moral issue. Not what the church or anyone else teaches, but your personal opinion.

I’m doing kind of like where you go onto the streets of a city and ask people a question, only instead of actually talking to real people I’m using lego dudes and taking thousand of still images to put together into a video. (I figured most people on the streets either do not consider embryo adoption morally problematic or have never thought of it before) In the vid I will be inserting quotes from a few articles and B16’s bioethics document and whatnot too.

So- is adoption of embryos morally licit? Do any circumstances permit it? If not, why not? and what do you propose should be done with these undeveloped human lives?

thanks in advance! look forward to reading your replies
 
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hey CAF!

The topic for my end of the year moral theology project is adoption of human embryos. I’ve already done some research and gathered a few articles on this (although I could use a few more, if anyone knows of any good ones) But for my project I also need individual opinions on this problematic moral issue. Not what the church or anyone else teaches, but your personal opinion.

I’m doing kind of like where you go onto the streets of a city and ask people a question, only instead of actually talking to real people I’m using lego dudes and taking thousand of still images to put together into a video. (I figured most people on the streets either do not consider embryo adoption morally problematic or have never thought of it before) In the vid I will be inserting quotes from a few articles and B16’s bioethics document and whatnot too.

So- is adoption of embryos morally licit? Do any circumstances permit it? If not, why not? and what do you propose should be done with these undeveloped human lives?

thanks in advance! look forward to reading your replies
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Yes, I think adoption of embryo’s would be morally licit if not neutral. Then I think they should be baptized and allowed to die a natural death. Then buried in a catholic cemetery. And many masses said for them and the salvation of those who created them. Of course many frozen embryo’s are already dead and we don’t know it until they are “thawed” . So how would you know if you adopted a live one or not?
 
Morally speaking the embryos should not exist. However, they do & I think the compassionate thing to do is allow them to be adopted. Adopting embryos and giving them a chance at life is much better than destroying them in the self-interest of another person.

Personally, I can’t image adopting an embryo b/c it seems very invasive and painful. However, I also can’t imagine going through IVF to produce these embryos then throwing them away. If I were unable to have children & adopt an already born child, I would probably consider adopting an embryo.
 
I think its a great cause on one hand, but on the other I am afraid of the slippery slope it could create in that this could make a new industry of adopting. I have seen moral takes on both sides and feel the latter is the correct route.
 
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Yes, I think adoption of embryo’s would be morally licit if not neutral. Then I think they should be baptized and allowed to die a natural death. Then buried in a catholic cemetery. And many masses said for them and the salvation of those who created them. Of course many frozen embryo’s are already dead and we don’t know it until they are “thawed” . So how would you know if you adopted a live one or not?
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Just wanted to clarify that when I said adoption I meant only adoption not implantation. My read of Dignitas Personae implies that implantation would not be ethical so I would not do it.
The proposal that these embryos could be put at the disposal of infertile couples as a
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*treatment for infertility *
is not ethically acceptable for the same reasons which make artificial
heterologous procreation illicit as well as any form of surrogate motherhood;

38 this practice
would also lead to other problems of a medical, psychological and legal nature.
It has also been proposed, solely in order to allow human beings to be born who are
otherwise condemned to destruction, that there could be a form of

*“prenatal adoption”. *This
proposal, praiseworthy with regard to the intention of respecting and defending human life,presents however various problems not dissimilar to those mentioned above.
 
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