Many of the drugs used for in vitro fertilization (IVF) to overcome infertility put women's health and lives in jeopardy. Various drugs used to facilitate ovulation or regulate its timing have serious side effects. Thousands of women are taking these drugs annually, and many are unaware of the dangers they face.
Additionally, the risk for having a baby with birth defects is higher when children are conceived through IVF. Unfortunately, physicians are all too ready to turn to IVF as the means to address infertility. Women should be very cautious before taking this very serious step. Beyond the serious health risks posed by IVF, the procedure involves the killing of embryonic human beings in its attempts to create embryos suitable for implantation.
When science and technology open doors that should not be opened, a Pandoras box spews forth evils that menace humanity. Scientists have opened a perilous door: they are manufacturing human life and using their product as an object of experimentation.
Science without the compass of ethical restraints is taking us on a path towards dehumanization in the name of progress. Modern scientific advances have so much to offer, but they must be guided by ethical principles which respect the inherent dignity of every human being. When science embarks on a Promethean quest, fueled by greed and commercialization, our own humanity is placed at risk.
In the IFV procedure, a woman is given fertility drugs to ensure that she produces several ova which are collected to be fertilized in a petri dish creating several embryos. The healthiest ones are chosen for transfer to the womans womb. Many embryos are discarded or frozen. Freezing kills some more. Some embryos are later used for experimentation, which is always lethal.
Recent estimates project that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States laboratories. These embryos are human lives that, given the chance to grow, would develop into a man or a woman. The fate and disposition of these embryos represents a serious moral dilemma which has contributed to a coarsening of the publics attitude towards the sacredness of human life.
During recent debates before Congress, a couple gave compelling testimony against embryonic stem cell research. The main arguments that they presented were their two young sons who had been frozen embryos that the husband and his wife adopted. We cannot pretend that these embryos are tadpoles. They are human beings with their unique genetic code, full complement of chromosomes, and individual characteristics already in place. Every person alive today started out as an embryo. These early-stage abortions are not morally acceptable. Unfortunately, many people of good will have no notion of what is at stake and simply focus on the baby that results from in vitro fertilization, not adverting to the fact that the procedure involves creating many embryos, most of which will never be born because they will be frozen or discarded.
We do not have a right to have a child. Such a right would be contrary to the childs 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
For us, marriage and motherhood and fatherhood is a vocation, and children are a gift. However, even when procreation is not possible, married life does not for that reason lose its value.
When we stop buggerizing around with nature, nature will stop buggerizing around with us.
Upon re-reading this, I've seen several misstatements and out and out untruths. Someone needs to go back and do some serious research (like actually talking to IVF patients and doctors, etc.) before making statements like these and presenting them as FACTS, when they aren't.
Guess what, Coleus, you and your wife (or husband if you're a woman) created many "beautiful children" that never made it beyond the embryo stage, too. If a normal woman has sex during her fertile time, an embryo is produced almost every time. Less than 30% make it to delivery, with most failures due to early genetic errors.
And G-d help you if your wife uses/used birth control pills.
One final note, it is IVF (In Vitro Fertilization), not IFV.
Now that is truly frightening.
bttt
If the parents do not what them implanted, why not donate those embryoes to other couples who want a child?
Those who 'ooooh' and 'aaaaah' over the child they allowed to live, and give no thought at all to the ones they allowed to be frozen indefinitely or destroyed show that their desire for a child was completely selfish. . .just another piece of 'stuff' to show off.
ping
Yes, but what does this mean? They are saying the DNA is embedded with the bacteria but does that mean the person will die from it or will be immune to it or what? The article never got off the ground.
I always thought IVF was a bad thing mainly due to the discarding of the embryos the couple does not want. However, I'm not going to harass any childless couple about this, that's for sure.
Bullshit.
Give me chapter and verse that even mentions IVF or admit you lied.
SO9
I have heard of the code of viruses getting into the DNA where it remains more or less forever and forever useless.