Recently, a woman who was teaching at a Catholic school in my area was fired because it was discovered that the child she had just had was conceived through in-vitro fertilization (with her husband, btw). I really don't understand that. I mean, she created a life. Can someone explain why the Church would be against IVF?
2006-11-10 06:20:15 · 7 answers · asked by aldera22 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most Catholics are not against IVF in and of itself. However, they have a issue with how it is currently performed. Normally when an IVF is performed, several eggs are removed from the woman and fertilized, but only one (or some) are replanted into the woman. The others are stored for later use should the first emplanting fail. If not used, those fertilized eggs are destroyed.
Since the Catholics believe that life begins at conception, they teach that the destruction of those fertilized eggs is murder.
Along with that, the majority of fertilized eggs emplanted into a woman that succeed in attaching and producing a live birth is far smaller than in non-IVF conception. The Catholics teach that each of those fertilized eggs that did not succeed is another life lost. They object to creating life by fertilizing the egg knowing that its chances of survival are small.
Odds are that the church's object was not that she managed to get a child out of the process, but that she used a process in which fertilized eggs were destroyed.
2006-11-10 06:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religions are not "logical" and you will never find out the real reason for her dismissal as "disobedience" to a school is not necessarily disobedience to a "catholic" church or the Vatican. Sometimes some bishops make decisions on their own.
The school is a private entity, the Church is a private entity and as private clubs, they make up the rules in "isolation" but with some general "adherence" to the "hierarchy" of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vatican has not come out against IVF, but I am sure that to use the technology, one has to ask "permission" for some sort of "dispensation"....The teacher might have broken either the school rules or the "asking" permission rule from the "higher ups"
Cyril Borg, the Cyborg...
2006-11-10 06:32:10 · answer #2 · answered by cyril_borg 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In IVF, many eggs are fertilized which are not implanted in the uterus. I'd imagine that with the church's firm standpoint on "life begins at conception" this would be the equivalent of an abortion.
2006-11-10 06:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is the whole crux of the Pope's argument against IVF. it particularly is strictly with the aid of fact many of the embryos are actually not allowed to stay, in case you prefer to place it that way. for this reason, it particularly is astounding that he has won the McCanns
2016-10-03 12:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She destroyed lives for the purpose of having a baby. In IVF procedures, several human embryos are produced, one or more are implanted, and the rest are destroyed. The baby she has may never know that a dozen of his/her brothers and sisters were sacrificed to give him/her life - or more accurately, to give the parents the baby they wanted.
2006-11-10 07:20:47 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The explanation about in vitro fertilization is ...it is not natural.
The fruitage of the belly is a reward.....Sons are an inheritence from God and happy is the man that has filled his quivver with them.
These people are giving all glory to the doctors and not God.
2006-11-10 06:30:04 · answer #6 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
WHAT??
I had no idea they would do that. Damn, it was even her husband's sperm. The church should've been HAPPY that this couple found a way to crank out kids for Christ.
2006-11-10 06:22:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋