Christians on Fertility Treatments
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- Created on: 10-04-14 16:04
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- Fertility Treatments
- Bible- can be used to support+ attack
- Ecclesiastes 7:13
- Genesis: God made humans+ told them to 'go forth+ multiply'
- We too can 'create'+ use our God given intellect to overcome infertility
- Matthew 7:12
- "Do onto others what you would have them do to you"
- RC
- Sympathetic to infertile people
- God's plan- has another life prepared for them- adoption, charity work
- Life begins at conception-> IVF is tampering with life
- Every child has a right for 2 parents
- Children born under fertility treatments are gifts of God's goodness+ should be brought up with love
- Opposed to all forms
- Unnatural
- Not a proper place for conceiving children
- RC Report 1987
- Respect for Human Life and the Dignity of Procreation
- "Loving sexual relationship between husband+ wife is a proper place for conceiving children"
- Respect for Human Life and the Dignity of Procreation
- RC Report 1987
- Not a proper place for conceiving children
- Spare embryos destroyed in IVF
- Unnatural
- Techniques that involve a 3rd person are problematic-> mechanical adultery+ attachment; bodies can't be rented
- "Betray spouses' rights of becoming a father and a mother only through each other"
- Catechism 2376
- "Betray spouses' rights of becoming a father and a mother only through each other"
- The techniques involving just the married couples are still problematic
- "It is wrong to separate protecreation from unity with the use of artificial contraception". "No sex without babies; no babies without sex"
- Sympathetic to infertile people
- CofE
- Fine to create spare embryos- later destroyed
- Acceptable to carry out research up to 14 days
- God working through science
- Lord Habgood. former Anglican Archbishop of York
- "To be treated with respect essentially, but no different from the products of early miscarriages"
- Don't yet have moral rights of a person
- "To be treated with respect essentially, but no different from the products of early miscarriages"
- AID- 3rd party
- Acceptable to carry out research up to 14 days
- Provision of fertility is a loving thing to do
- Agape love
- 1984
- Declared surrogacy unacceptable, but donations are to help couples fulfill their desires to have children
- Mechanical adultery
- Declared surrogacy unacceptable, but donations are to help couples fulfill their desires to have children
- Robin Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury on the proposals of removing the need of the father
- "Downgrading of the ordinary processes of reproduction and upbrining'
- IVF- only acceptable for women of a nat. age to conceive
- Fine to create spare embryos- later destroyed
- Methodists
- Right to research the causes of infertility+ look for cures
- Creation of spare embryos isn't a problem
- Against using donor sperm+ eggs
- Bible- can be used to support+ attack
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