christian views on different types of fertility treatment? Roman catholic etc and IVF etc?

Answer 1

This should be fun. Let the wacky opinions roll...

Answer 2

Christian Views On Fertility Treatment

Answer 3

I am a Christian. IVF is wrong because millions of fertilised viable eggs are chucked down the drain. One baby but many deaths. And thousands of baby's are aborted because it's used on the whole as a contraception. So why are not the baby's that are aborted just adopted by the IVF mothers? That would stop all the killing.

Preferring the baby's is better than preferring out selves.

Answer 4

Catholics say no to all branches of fertility treatment, as IVF and similar things involve discarding embreyo's, and since they blive life starts at fertilisaton, they consider discarding "unwanted" ones completely wrong. The church of england belives that ivf is ok, only if all other measures have been tried, and if no discarded embreyo's are used, of course this makes the chance of IVF working low, but it is still allowed t some extent. Other branches of religion such as the quakers, who do not belive life starts at fertilisation, are ok with fertility treatment.
Other methods such as surrogacy and adoption are not really allowed (accept for the quakers who dont mind using these) becuase it denied the child thier real biological parents which according to the bible is wrong. (I do not know the exact quote so you would have to search for it).
Hope this helps

Answer 5

+ In Vitro Fertilization +

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.

For more information, see: http://www.usccb.org/prolife/programs/rlp/98rlphaa.htm
or the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 2270 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art5.htm

+ Artificial Insemination +

The Catholic Church does not approve of artificial insemination.

The U.S. bishops address this question in the fourth edition of the USCCB text Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services:

Directive 38: When the marital act of sexual intercourse is not able to attain its procreative purpose, assistance that does not separate the unitive and procreative ends of the act, and does not substitute for the marital act itself, may be used to help married couples conceive.

Directive 41: Homologous artificial fertilization (that is, any technique used to achieve conception using the gametes of the two spouses joined in marriage) is prohibited when it separates procreation from the marital act in its unitive significance (e.g., any technique used to achieve extra-corporeal conception).

For the complete document, see: http://www.usccb.org/bishops/directives.shtml

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 6

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infertility can run in the family and one of the first things the doctor asks you when you go to a fertility clinic is your family history regarding cases of infertility or other reproductive issues.
If infertility is caused by genetic disorder then it's not unusual that one of the kids (your mom) doesn't have it and another does (your aunt).
two months of trying is still to early to be concerned about the fact that you might be infertile and it's also quite early to go to a fertility specialist. Go to a regular Obgyb to get a closer insight and see what ways there are are to improve your fertility rate.
Also remove alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes from your life because they might influence your chances too. Stress is also a risk factor when it comes to infertility.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

Thank you for asking, this is a very good question.
Should we really use our technology to artificially increase our population? Perhaps not. On the other hand, there are many children in care and couples who want children to adopt. It would be good to see more children in care finding new families.

Answer 10

I answer this as a Christian who went through infertility. My husband and I suffered for years, trying to have a child and not succeeding, while test after test said that we were both capable of conceiving. It did get to the point where it was suggested that we just might not be genetically compatible (i.e., I could conceive with somebody else, and he could conceive with somebody else, but perhaps not together). This was not an acceptable answer for us.

Our church at the time -- Assemblies of God first, and then Evangelical Anglican/Anglican Evangelical/Evangelical Episcopal (one congregation tossed about by various Anglican communions) -- provided absolutely NO guidance to us as we navigated the moral minefield of infertility treatments.

We had to look at each and every test and treatment option to see if it matched our understanding of sound moral teaching. IVF failed right away. All those IVF clinics will tell you they have a 25% success rate, but they measure that success in terms of "pregnant woman." They do not count all the human embryos that die in the process. By our reckoning, the success rate was 6% or less of a human embryo surviving IVF. With so many unwanted children in the world, we could not justify risking the lives of so many of our own embryos just for the privilege of carrying one to term. We would sooner adopt.

We also rejected surrogacy and sperm donation because both are basically equivalent to adoption, but more invasive in the marital relationship. Why not just adopt, then?

Eventually, we settled on only the treatment protocols that would enable us to have our own baby, together, and if that didn't work, then we would adopt. (We would have adopted right off, but my husband was adopted himself and had a strong need for at least one biological relative. We gave ourselves three years total to try and then if nothing worked, we would stop trying to conceive and switch our efforts wholly on adoption.)

The way infertility care works is that they shove you through a protocol of tests, usually without considering the couple's unique situation. This, by the way, is both dehumanizing and very, very, VERY intrusive into the marital relationship. Every single detail of your sexual activity is scrutinized, commented on, etc. In retrospect, I would never recommend anybody going through it -- I'd say, "Skip to adoption!"

We got to the point where I "had" to do three rounds of Clomid, a drug that makes women ovulate. I already ovulated on my own and didn't want to take the drug. I was told it would help me "super ovulate" and release lots of eggs so that maybe one had a chance, and if I didn't take it, I would be dropped from the program. I took it and within 2 months, my body stopped ovulating altogether. (My body chemistry sometimes reacts exactly opposite than expected to a drug). So they took me off Clomid, and it was three months to flush my system out before I started ovulating again. Just to show you that the service you get in fertility care is so impersonal, it sometimes hurts more than helps.

Eventually, I begged for a test I was told I didn't need and finally found a sympathetic doctor to do it. That test proved that my immune system was killing off my husband's sperm before it had a chance to fertilize an egg.

There are two available treatments to this situation. One is experimental, involving harvesting white blood cells from the husband and injecting them into the wife periodically, until her body no longer attacks his DNA and stops killing the sperm. The second treatment is more routinely practiced: inter-uterine insemination or IUI. The husband's sperm is removed from the seminal fluid and suspended in an inert solution, which is injected into the wife during ovulation. If all goes well, the sperm slip by and fertilize the egg before the woman's immune system attacks.

Not having any direction from our church, this is what we chose to do. I talked the medical staff into opening an hour early on a Saturday morning because I didn't want to chance getting our sperm mixed up with somebody else's.

I have to tell you, it was awful. It was not romantic. It was not loving. It was very clinical and depressing -- not the way a child should be conceived. We decided we'd never do it again and never recommend it to anybody else. It's too intrusive and there is too much anxiety because you don't know if somebody is mixing your sperm with somebody else's or substituting it or what.

Now that we have become Roman Catholic, we very much understand why the Church teaches that fertility treatments are only okay if they help the couple conceive in the normal act of marital love. So yes, if a woman doesn't ovulate, Clomid is a good option. And if she ovulates but can't sustain a pregnancy due to a hormonal deficiency, boosting her up with synthetic hormones is perfectly okay. Medications and mineral supplements that improve a man's sperm count or other functions of his body (yes, Viagra) are also okay.

But the things that jeopardize your own human embryos, like IVF, GIFT and ZIFT, the things that bring third-parties into conception, such as surrogates, sperm donation, and IUI -- those are not okay. Those take the holiness out of procreation that God built into the marital act.

Answer 11

Yes they are. They all believe similar things to christians but they all are a bit different. Think of it as a tree, Christianity is the tree trunk and Catholics and anglicans and methodists are the branches coming off of the tree. hope i helped!!!