At 06:49 PM 2/17/2004 -0600 Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
>At 06:38 PM 2/17/04, Erik Reuter wrote:
>Did anyone say that it does not count? John said that he "does not believe
>in it", which I presume is because the Catholic church discourages
>it. AFAIK, the Catholic church does not teach that babies born through IVF
>are sub-human, or indeed anything but fully human. (If I am wrong on this,
>I'd appreciate correction from someone who knows what the Catholic church
>teaches.)
More than just artificial insemination, it is certainly possibly for a
lesbian woman to have sex with a man who is not her partner to become
impregnated. I've conceded that in those cases there may be a compelling
interest for the child to be adopted by her biological mother, rather than
be placed in a family that meets her expectation of having a father and a
mother - but I don't believe that the government should *incentivise* such
outcomes.
My problem with IVF is that a typical step of the procedure is selective
abortion, and I am at least intellectually consistent about my belief that
human life begins at conception.
JDG
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