Freezing Children and Other Crimes against Humanity
By Judie Brown In vitro fertilization continues to grow in popularity as more and more women—married and otherwise—discover they are infertile. Whether infertility is due…
By Judie Brown In vitro fertilization continues to grow in popularity as more and more women—married and otherwise—discover they are infertile. Whether infertility is due…
Astounded, I had to take a seat when I read the latest from Rebecca Taylor.
Every time the subject of human personhood is raised, somebody immediately argues that legal recognition of personhood would mean an end to in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Attendees of the Fifth International Pro-Life Congress in Costa Rica met the country’s first child conceived through Natural Procreative Technology.
“Suffering is part of saying ‘yes’ to the Lord,” Sue Hilgers said. “We were ignored and ostracized by our community, other doctors and even priests. But our work has been as much of a gift to us as we have hoped it would be to others.”
“It is to be hoped that Costa Rica does not violate the rights of the unborn with laws that legitimise in vitro fertilisation or abortion,” said Pope Benedict XVI [on 3 December] in remarks to the new Costa Rican ambassador to the Vatican.
“Reproductive technology” is fraught with moral problems, including practices, that should never arise. They occur because some clinicians have determined that they can treat infertility by manipulation.
It was interesting to read Elizabeth Comeau’s Boston Globe article about her new baby and her own notoriety as the first baby born in the United States as a result of in vitro fertilization.