As almost seems inevitable, a Michigan couple's child whose conceived in a petri dish was accidentally implanted in the wrong woman. Then this stranger had to carry the baby to term. Not her baby, but the other woman's.
Shannon Morell, whose baby was implanted in the wrong person, felt like she missed out on a lot by not carrying her baby. Of course she did. This is totally against nature.
It's great that this baby is alive and healthy, but these mixups are the result of human tampering with God's intentions about conception and birth.
Imagine how this child will feel when she is old enough to be told she did not start out in her mother's womb. That she started out in the womb of a total stranger. Genetically the woman she lives with is her mother, but in some sense, the surrogate is also her mother. It can cause nothing but confusion. Almost as though she has two mothers.
Children are not possessions that we have a "right" to. They are gifts from God and we must live out his plan for marriage, conception, and birth.
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Are you saying that only children conceived in a marital bed are gifts of God?
ReplyDeleteSo, what do you call the other children of this Earth. Do you reject a child you know that was born via artificial reproduction assistance? How about adoption? According to your statement above, adoption would be just as wrong: "That she started out in the womb of a total stranger. Genetically the woman she lives with is her mother, but in some sense, the surrogate is also her mother. It can cause nothing but confusion. Almost as though she has two mothers."
A child who has been adopted has two mothers and starts in the womb of someone who may (or may not) be nothing more than a stranger.
If God prefers his coital children over his other, then it's not a God I could ever be convinced to love.
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Well, all the little children except the ones born out of wedlock, or from divorced parents, or the ones born to infertile couples who used IVF." Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's NOT how it was written.
Don't bother with a response. I won't be checking back in.
Phil - One very wise Jesuit priest said to me before I embarked upon my IVF cycle that wherever my husband and I were together was our marriage bed -- at home, at the beach, on vacation, at my inlaws, or in a surgical suite. Please show me where Jesus says that children born of IVF aren't to be. Jesus loved all of the children and doing IVF is not a sin.
ReplyDeleteAnd really you need to get the terminiology correct. Embryos are placed back or transferred into a waiting uterus. Those embryos then "implant" into the uterus.