Artificial Insemination

[Anna]

I know what fertilized eggs can be stored via invitro...but artificial insemination in its truest sense just means that the sperm is inserted via an alternative means. I don't mean to sound excessive but think 'turkey baster'.

I don't think the scenario where '3000 human babies were trashed' was from AI, because Artificial Insemination is a necessarily intrauterine procedure, it's usually performed in cases where, say, a the lining/mucous of the woman's uterous is inhospitable to the sperm, the male's sperm count is low etc...So, i'm a bit confused by that statement...

It's just a tad more complicated than that, FreeSoul.

The child is conceived outside of the woman's body, in a petri dish, if you will...the ovum (fertilized egg) is then incubated for a time, and ultimately, inserted into the uterus.

The means of obtaining the sperm is via unnatural process, the means of united the sperm to the egg is via an unnatural process, and the means of the ovum implanting in the mother's womb is an unnatural process.

Even if one is using a condom with holes in it, one is engaging in a barrier method, in order to keep some seminal fluid from entering the woman's body. I cannot see how that can be entirely "moral." CMom, are you certain that the Church approves of this procedure?

Pax Christi. <><

Edited November 5, 2003 by Anna

[Jake Huether]

Simply,

YES.

and to elaborate on that a bit.

God's plan is different for every couple. If THEY want to have a baby but He doesn't, then sure, they have free will. But the Church teaches that our will should be in line with His. When our will is against his, then that is a sin (i.e. detrimental to our relationship with him / bad for our souls / bad for our body's / bad for society).

If a husband and wife are trying to have a baby, and it was God's will that they do, then there will be a baby brought into the world in the exact way God intended.

[ICTHUS]

I suppose this is just a touchy subject for me. I have Spina Bifida. 'Nuff said.