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This love involves the good of the whole person and the noble actions of marriage unite a couple intimately and chastely. Reproductive technologies that substitute for marriage are inconsistent with human dignity by generating life outside of natural law and God's design. Human sexuality and procreation must occur through the conjugal act within marriage, as this respects the child's right to be born of its parents' loving union. Using donor sperm or eggs violates the spousal commitment and child's right to know its parents.

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This love involves the good of the whole person and the noble actions of marriage unite a couple intimately and chastely. Reproductive technologies that substitute for marriage are inconsistent with human dignity by generating life outside of natural law and God's design. Human sexuality and procreation must occur through the conjugal act within marriage, as this respects the child's right to be born of its parents' loving union. Using donor sperm or eggs violates the spousal commitment and child's right to know its parents.

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This love is an eminently human one.

It involves the good of


the whole person. The actions with marriage by which the
couple are united intimately and chastely are noble and worthy
ones
Second Vatican Council
Principle of Human Dignity

 Human person is made in the image of God

 Reproductive technologies that substitute for the


marriage act are not consistent with human dignity
– Bring about the human generation outside the
method in accord with the natural law and the design
of the creator
Principle of Personalized Sexuality
 The gift of human sexuality must be used in marriage in
keeping with its intrinsic, indivisible, specifically
human teleology

 Human sexuality is always seen in relation to the family


as the basic community into which we are born and
educated and on which the larger community is built

 Masturbation for the sperm sample


On Respect for Human Life
(Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
1987)

 Human procreation must take place in marriage


– Must be the fruit and the sign of the mutual self-
giving, love, and fidelity of the spouses

 Using the sperm or ovum of a third party is not


acceptable
– Violation of the reciprocal commitment of the
spouses and the rights of the child to a filial
relationship to its parents
On Respect for Human Life
(Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith 1987)
 The generation of the new person should occur only
through an act of intercourse performed between the
husband and wife

 The fertilization of the new human person must not


occur as the result of a technical process that
substitutes for the marital act
– Separates the procreative and unitive aspects of
marriage
 “The transmission of human life is entrusted by nature to a
personal and conscious act and as such is subject to all the
holy laws of God: the immutable and inviolable laws
which must be recognized and observed. For this reason,
one cannot use means and follow methods which could be
licit in the transmission of the life of plants and animal”

Pope John XXIII


 Children who are not born as a result of conjugal
intercourse are deprived of "proper perfection"
(Vatican 1987)
Stewardship
 The child is not a fruit of an act of love but of a
technological procedure
 The child as a medical event rather than being co-
creators
We do not have a "right to have a child." Such a right would be
"contrary to the child's dignity and nature. The child is not an
object to which one has a right, nor can he be considered an
object of ownership; rather, a child is a gift, 'the supreme gift,'
and the most gratuitous gift of marriage, and is a living testimony
of the mutual giving of his parents. For this reason the child has
the right to be the fruit of the specific act of conjugal love of his
parents; and the child also has the right to be respected as a
person from the moment of his conception" (Donum Vitae, 8).
Stewardship & Creativity

 Exploitation of the human life

 Manipulation of the genetic make-up – the


sanctity of life is non-negotiable
Equity and Justice
• Not all parents are capable or accessible of in vitro
fertilization

• There is no assurance of non-discrimination

• There is no fair and justifiable allocation of resources

• The commercialization of surrogacy denigrated the


dignity of women, especially the poor

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