What is the Church's stance on in vitro fertilization?

[prompt_succor]

My wife and I are looking into invetro fertilization and I wanted to know what the churches stance is, especially in regards to the freezing of extra embreos to be implanted at a later date. Thank you!

 

[Leonie_Ambrose]

prompt succor,

The following links should assist you in better understanding the Catholic Church’s teaching on IVF - and artificial insemination. If you have any further questions or concerns that are not answered by these links, please [contact Catholic Answers (http://www.catholic.com/home/contact.asp) directly.

**Recommended Reading:

• Fertility Question–what’s licit?
• In doing IVF, how grave a sin have we committed?
• Babies Deserve Better: What You Need to Know If You’re Struggling with Infertility by Jameson and Jennifer Taylor
• Elementary Logic and the Beginning of Life by Patrick Beeman
• Can Frozen Embryos Be Saved? by Grace MacKinnon
• Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation
• Evangelium vitae (“The Gospel of Life”)**