I remember learning how many embryos
die in the IVF process and it got me to thinking about having a “right” to children as if they were things at the store instead of people. Then that made me think of slavery. It’s very scary to me.
Well, these are only my thoughts but for more authoritative statements, there are many IVF-related links at the USCCB web site:
old.usccb.org/prolife/issues/ivf/
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4. Why is the Catholic Church opposed to reproductive technologies such as “in
vitro” fertilization?
The child conceived in human procreation is a human person, equal in dignity with the
parents. Therefore he or she deserves to be brought into being through an act of total and
committed marital love between husband and wife. Technologies that assist the couple’s
marital union in giving rise to a child respect this special dignity of the human person;
technologies that replace it with a procedure by a technician in a laboratory do not. The
moral problem is aggravated by efforts to introduce gametes (sperm or egg) from people
outside the marriage, to make use of another woman’s womb to gestate the child, or to
exercise “quality control” over the child as though he or she were a product. IVF as
practiced today also involves a very high death rate for the embryos involved, and opens
the door to further abuses
old.usccb.org/comm/Dignitaspersonae/Q_and_A.pdf
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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
- Blessed John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851
Tú y yo sabemos por la fe que oculto en las especies sacramentales está Cristo,
ese Cristo con su Cuerpo, con su Sangre, con su Alma, y con su Divinidad,
prisonero de amor.
- San Josemaría Escrivá, 1 junio 1974
… Our Lord Himself frequently said; and it is recorded as an Apostolic tradition from Him
by St. Justin the Martyr. He says ‘Jesus often said, “They who are near Me are near a fire”’.
- Abp. W. B. Ullathorne, August 1st 1886
