OddBird:
- HOW IS HOMOLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION TO BE EVALUATED FROM THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW?
Homologous artificial insemination within marriage cannot be admitted except for those cases in which the technical means is not a substitute for the conjugal act but serves to facilitate and to help so that the act attains its natural purpose.
There’s a distinction being made here between a technical means which substitutes for the conjugal act, and one which helps to facilitate the natural end of the act. In the former, the act isn’t done–again, sperm attained by masturbation is inserted into the woman artificially, usually after being washed and otherwise processed. In the latter, the act takes place as normal, but some outside means is employed to assist.