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Adopting Embryos | Camile | Sunday, February 1, 2009 |
Question: My Friends couldn't concieve a child naturally so they started to look at adoption options. Through their search they discovered a process where people had gone through invitro and ended up with "spare" embryos and nolonger wanted them. These embryos were now adoptable. So my friends adopted two of these unwanted embryos, she carried them to birth and now they have two beautiful children. |
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Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM
Dear Camile: Well I praise God for these two children, but artificial insemination is a grave sin. There can be no moral justification for it. In addition to the fact that the procedures involve killing babies to facilitate a live birth the very idea of it is morally unacceptable as outlined by the Church in the following quote from the Catechism:
The bottonline, therefore, is that the "adopt an embryo" is not morally acceptable and in fact further encourages couples to undergo the invitro fertilization thinking that the "extra" babies will be adopted out. Babies are not commodities and even with such an "adoption" program babies are still killed in the process of artificial insemination. God Bless,
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