[lastchance]

I wonder that this woman and her husband never bothered to find out what the Church taught on in vitro fertilization.
I have a feeling they were Catholics of convenience. What the Church taught was fine as long as it did not mean any change in their lives or behaviors.

The real pity is that there are so many children out there who need good, loving homes which I am sure this couple would have provided. I don't understand the atitude that thinks the pregnancy is the essential part of parenthood. It's not. If it is the joy of rearing and loving a child that a couple wants they should seriously consider adoption.

[hispanichoosier]

If it is the joy of rearing and loving a child that a couple wants they should seriously consider adoption.

While adoption is certainly a moral good (and I agree with the Church's position on IVF), the joy in having a child is not simply the rearing of that child. The travails that a mother goes through while her child is in utero, the wonder as the child kicks for the first time, etc. all are also times of joy that men and women long to experience.

[NYer]

I wonder that this woman and her husband never bothered to find out what the Church taught on in vitro fertilization. I have a feeling they were Catholics of convenience. What the Church taught was fine as long as it did not mean any change in their lives or behaviors.

At a similar point in time in my life, I confess to being ignorant to church teaching on this subject. Unable to conceive through normal means, my husband and I considered alternative means. Essentially, in my mind, the ends justified the means. However, an interior voice persuaded me that this was not God's design. We adopted.