If abortion is 'Tampering with God's work' is not invetro ,fertility treatments and seragacy also tampering ?

Question

If god wanted her to be a mother,he would allow her a successful pregnancy. Tampering with this through science is a sin?

Answer 1

I don't know what other religions teach, but the Catholic church teaches that in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and any other fertility treatments that take the act of conception outside the body are sinful.

Answer 2

I disagree with mariposa. You don't really make a good point.

You're practicing selective hearing. Some people believe that fertility treatments and surrogacy are also sins.

There are religious people who believe that tampering with reproduction in any way is a sin. No abortion, no in-vitro fertilization, no surrogate mothers, nothing. To them, your only option (if you're unable to conceive naturally) is adoption. Your only option if you conceive accidentally is adoption or keeping the child.

While that's an extreme view, it's logical. Abortion should not be singled out as it is. If God hates us for taking the morning-after pill and preventing a pregnancy that He wanted to happen, then He should also hate us for artificially creating a pregnancy that he didn't want to happen. There are many people who believe this, most obviously traditional Catholics, but also some other people.

Answer 3

So, Are doctors "tampering with God's work" when they are trying to save a life? or should we just let the sick die? after all, if God wanted them to live, he would have prevented what made them sick to begin with.

Disagree with you on that one, abortion IS murder. Whereas, fertility treatments; like in-vitro or any other method, are just ways to help some one get pregnant, some one who can't, but really wants to bring life to this world.

Answer 4

LOL if you think of it that way, most of the time we are tampering with "god's work" after all if god REALLy wanted us all to live, there wouldn't be any sickness, so we shouldn't have to take advil for a head ache, or tylenol for the flu, we should ride it out and if god wishes it, he'd help us. See? Besides didn't god say something like if you try I'll make it work? God doesn't want you to sit around and wait for him to do stuff for you, he wants you to try all the options, and if you deserve it, you'll get it. As is the case with invertro, it doesn't always work :(

Answer 5

by making use of those strict definitions, confident. Tampering is a generalization, despite the fact that, and one with such damaging connotations that i does not deem it the main valid determination. by making use of that good judgment then putting a individual on medical help or giving them drugs to lengthen their existence is the two "Tampering with God's paintings." in my view, i don't think of God has any difficulty with something that promotes the popular fee and high quality of existence. Abortion in maximum circumstances, despite the fact that, does not.

Answer 6

as much as your semi-question/ argument makes alot of sense, women who dont become pregnant easily have that feel, the feeling that they havent done what their bodies were meant to do, reproduce, its a urge in all women to have a baby at any age, it even starts as young as 13 yrs old and even in some 50 yr old women.

Over sexed men are not just over sexed, they are having urges to reproduce, and in cavemen time, the man with the most children was the alfa male and was seen with great power and strength. It is a human thing to want a baby and to feel "normal", and with science it is possible. Just my opinon, :-)

Answer 7

Thing is not all people who get pregnant deserve a child. And that applies for women who get pregnant accidentally AND for women who get help in becoming pregnant. Being infertile is nature's way of selecting out people who shouldn't have kids. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen as often as it should (that's how you get people who have genetic disorders reproducing and passing them unto their kids, in a world that is overpopulated as it is).
As for tampering with god's work, don't forget that there are more people in the world who are not Christian, than there are Christians, so you can't possibly expect everyone to adhere to your idea of what should be considered a sin.

Answer 8

Abortion is murder. As far as invitro, surrogacy, etc, I feel it's not "tampering" with God's work. God creates ALL life and why would that change with invitro? Isn't that still a baby created by God? Just think of it as God's work with a little help from medicine.

Answer 9

So is picking the sex of your baby, etc...and its controversial, and people make big deals about it, but when it comes to abortion, these same people think its ok to have one, but not to be able to choose the sex or whatever.

Answer 10

YES I FEEL THAT IT'S ALL A SIN BECAUSE ABORTION IS MURDER AND THE REST IS TAMPERING. IF IT'S MEANT TO BE, THEN IT WILL HAPPEN WITHOUT THE HELP OF A TESTTUBE.