2006-08-29 03:39:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics and many other Christians believe that a soul is placed in a human at the point of conception. This is why the Church celebrates on March 25 the feast of the Annunciation when Mary said "Yes!" to God and Jesus was conceived. Life is sacred and a gift from God.
In most in vitro fertilizations, more than one egg is fertilized. Several embryos are then placed into the mother's womb. The remaining embryos are either destroyed or frozen. Destroying human embryos is abortion and freezing them with an unknown future hope of ever being born is not respecting the dignity of human life.
Later if and when the embryos begin to grow in the mother, all but one or two are usually aborted, again killing sacred human life.
With love in Christ.
2006-08-29 17:21:55 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about artificial insemination , but that whole fixation surrounding the subject of conception/ contraception is fascinating....I know of a Catholic hospital that went into partnership with a secular hospital and the way they solve the issue of tubal ligations being preformed in their facility is to have the doctor walk through one of two doors when entering the OR suite...One door represents the Catholic affiliation where no tubals are to be performed...The other door can be entered to represent the partner affiliation if the surgeon plans to do a tubal...Both doors lead into the same OR suite.
2006-08-29 07:06:19 · answer #2 · answered by Denise W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about artificial insemination (women goes to a sperm bank) or in-vitro fertilization (mix egg and sperm, then insert into woman)? If you mean artificial insemination, the answer is no, no sin of which I am aware. If you mean in-vitro fertilization, then this is a tricky question. The answer is a resounding "Yes and No." I shall explain...
IF...
I take my sperm, and the doctors remove one egg from my wife, and they mix the two to make a child, and they insert that into my wife's womb to implant...
THEN there is no sin.
HOWEVER...the more likely scenario
IF...
I take my sprm, and the doctors remove 6 eggs from my wife, and they mix the solution to form 6 healthy little zygotes (all alive), and they insert only one into my wife's womb to implant...but throw the other 5 away...
THEN you have murdered 5 lives. This is a sin.
The sin is murder.
2006-08-29 03:49:21 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
All this talk about sin sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-02 01:01:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's sinful. It does lead to life (except for those other embryos which just get frozen, of course), but it does so in a way which departs from God's plan for the human body. Our bodies aren't just more natural resources to exploit - they're temples of God's Creation. Therefore we need to use them in the way God intended, especially when we're trying to bring more life into the world.
2006-08-29 05:33:19 · answer #5 · answered by thechivalrous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I took a course sophomore year Catholic Morality which says it IS a sin. Catholics believe that it isn't the ultimate expression of love (aka sex). Which is stupid I know.
2006-08-29 03:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by christinak5689 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are the only ones that consider it a sin
2006-08-29 03:42:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they claim Mary was impregnated by artificial insemination.
2006-08-29 03:42:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Artificial conception is considered wrong/ sinful.
Peace!
2006-08-29 03:45:12 · answer #9 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is allowed. Not a sin. Quite the contrary actually.
2006-08-29 03:41:03 · answer #10 · answered by Billy! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋