Ova and Sperm Donation. Is it a bad thing why or why not?

[perez639]

Hey everyone!

I am a nursing student over in CO doing a research paper on this topic for a Health Care Ethics class. I want your (name removed by moderator)ut!!

Here are some conversation starters:

1. How can these donations impact single mothers, lesbian couples and families in general
2. Health risks (especially for females)
3. Lead to increased usage of IVF
4. How sperm is collected for males (the morality of it)
5. What about the children born of this evolving type of industry? Do they deserve the right to know who their biological parents are?

6.The money luring prospective donors and its affects on our socielty

1. Parents creating “designer babies”

Again, I want your opinions about the morality of all these things or other aspects you would like to bring up, If you have any great links or articles you would like to share they would be greatly appreciated!

Peace Be With you all,

Neomi

 

[Timidity]

Again, I want your opinions about the morality of all these things or other aspects you would like to bring up, If you have any great links or articles you would like to share they would be greatly appreciated!

I’m not going to give you my opinion, but I will give you facts.

These things are immoral. not just immoral. but gravely immoral. This is a teaching of the Church.

I suggest you read the Catechism, specifically the chapter on the 6th Commandment.

 

[gradstud35]

Sperm Donations are the ultimate conclusion to modern day society’s dead beat-dad syndrome.

I’ve never understood how any man could just dump a bunch of sperm at a donor bank with the express intent of creating HIS offspring and then have no moral, financial, legal or ethical intention of raising them.

 

[I_A]

There was a newspaper article I recently read about mothers who are mad that their designer babies had serious hereditary illnesses.

Biologically speaking the mating process exists to select a mate who will be there to help raise healthy children able to procreate themselves. If you short that out of course there are going to be side effects. You can make a pretty good argument against it from that aspect alone.

Also theres also the exploitation of young women for their eggs.

 

[Sixtus]

What is wrong with helping a childless couple have children? On the surface: not a lot. But it is not too far away from eugenics.

Many men have low sperm counts. I do not see any reason why his sperm cannot be collected, concentrated then artificially injected into his wife’s womb. It is after all just helping nature. But I suspect I will be shot down in flamess in the postings which follow

 

[EBSSTF4]

On an emotional level it can be very difficult to tell a couple it is wrong. But I have been asked and take my response from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

CCC

2375 Research aimed at reducing human sterility is to be encouraged, on condition that it is placed "at the service of the human person, of his inalienable rights, and his true and integral good according to the design and will of God."166

2376 Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child’s right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage. They betray the spouses’ “right to become a father and a mother only through each other.”

2377 Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act…

 

[perez639]

Many men have low sperm counts. I do not see any reason why his sperm cannot be collected, concentrated then artificially injected into his wife’s womb.

This is an interesting point. I am not familiar with this type of treatment… What else do you know about this aspect?

Peace Be with you all,

Neomi

 

[BlestOne]

What is wrong with helping a childless couple have children? On the surface: not a lot. But it is not too far away from eugenics.

Many men have low sperm counts. I do not see any reason why his sperm cannot be collected, concentrated then artificially injected into his wife’s womb. It is after all just helping nature. But I suspect I will be shot down in flamess in the postings which follow

Do you not trust that God can create life of a man with a low sperm count? I mean really, if God can give a 90 yo woman (Sarah) a baby of a 100 yo man (Abraham), why can’t he give a man with low sperm count a baby? What you are forgetting is that God creates life through us for a reason. We have to trust in his plan and not play God for ourselves and try to circumvent his will.

The problem is that with all these things that the OP has listed, we are playing God. We may not understand God’s plan, but I assure you, it is always better than our own plans. IVF in general, conceives a child out of a dr’s office or laboratory, not out of love. Nor does it ensure that each child will have a set of parents (1 man, 1 woman) since conception is not based on a mutual act of love.

A few problems I see here…

1. a child is not a possession to be bought at a doctor’s office.
2. Sperm collection causes a man to sin.
3. Allowing IVF by sperm donation to single women or lesbian couples does not provide an optimal family unit for a child.
4. Biological ignorance can delay diagnosis of serious illness, learning disorders, and other illnesses that could impact the life and quality of life of the child.
5. Financial gains of a donor without financial responsibility for the offspring is tantamount to purchasing a child and that is not only immoral, but illegal.
6. God’s plan includes a defined stable family. That is the best enviornment for child rearing.