As I said, the Church has always and will always have the same basic doctrine concerning procreation, because this is the truth. Truth does not change because of the passage of time or technological advances. You seem to be trying to twist my words into the absurd statement “the Church foresees and has always foreseen all possible future technological advances and has already fully worked out all of the moral implications of using them all in every possible way, arising from the unchangeable truth concerning procreation.”
Yes, I’ve read that novel. It is more to do with the effects of a totalitarian state rather than IVF.
I suggest you read it again with both eyes open. Huxley’s point is that, contrary to the common belief of the time that expanding technology would deliver a Paradise on Earth, technology untrammelled by morality would deliver Hell on Earth, regardless of whatever system of government exists. The very title of the novel is a satirical quote from Shakespeare’s
The Tempest, :
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*"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is!
O brave new world,
**That has such people in't!**" *
The existence of IVF is the central horror of the novel, and the one which Huxley’s contemporary readers found the most shocking.
What else could be regarded as totalitarian?
The dictatorship of the moral relativism which rules in most Western countries, which blinds some to the obvious immorality of practices such as IVF and contraception (also condemned by the agnostic Huxley and by virtually the whole population regardess of religion, within living memory. But some among us think that 1980 was “Year Zero”.
The Catholic church perhaps?
The Catholic Church has always been and remains the strongest and surest, and often the
only, opponent of totalitarianism - such as on the very topic under discussion. Not such a good example for** you** to use!
As I mentioned in another post, I do not believe I have a ‘right’ to a child.
You said, absurdly,
There are no sources to say that IVF is somehow immoral,…
I’ve found out that the Catholic church deems what I have done to be immoral. I’m making the decision to stick by what I’ve done. I’m not going to ask for ‘forgiveness’.
These certainly sound like the statements of one who is under the delusion that he has an absolute “right” to a child.
We had a problem with our fertility, which we addressed.
No, you didn’t address your fertility problem at all. You completely avoided addressing it and replaced the conjugal act with the immoral commodification of human beings. You are still just as infertile as you ever were. Only know you have a child to “show and tell” so that you can falsely claim to people that you are not infertile. But you know that you are.
The Church, however, is explicitly saying that people in our position have no right to reproduce.
The Church says nothing of the sort either explicitly or even implicitly.
