Moral obligation???

[ThrowNoStones]

After reading the thread about the Pill, I have a question.

If a couple goes to a fertility doctor to find out why they haven’t gotten pregnant even without using any protection, and they are told that the woman has a thin uterine lining, does the woman then have the moral obligation to use progesterone and/or other medications to thicken her uterine lining to be able to maintain a pregnancy? Or is it permissible for her to not do/take anything and possibly allow fertilized embryos to be shed along with the uterine lining each month?

 

[LilyM]

After reading the thread about the Pill, I have a question.

If a couple goes to a fertility doctor to find out why they haven’t gotten pregnant even without using any protection, and they are told that the woman has a thin uterine lining, does the woman then have the moral obligation to use progesterone and/or other medications to thicken her uterine lining to be able to maintain a pregnancy? Or is it permissible for her to not do/take anything and possibly allow fertilized embryos to be shed along with the uterine lining each month?

Many women will at least at times shed fertilized but unimplanted embryos along with the uterine lining, progesterone or not, if I understand correctly. God doesn’t intend all fertilized embryos to be implanted or brought to term.

Just as we aren’t required to take heroic measures to sustain life at its end, though certainly we may choose to do so, so there isn’t, I think, any obligation to take heroic measures to bring babies into the world either.