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March 26, 2022

Author turns critical eye to in vitro fertilization

Stephanie Gray Connors, author of Conceived by Science: Thinking Carefully and Compassionately about Infertility and IVF. The photo was taken when she was seven months’ pregnant with her daughter, who is now six months old.

VANCOUVER -- Although in vitro fertilization can be something of a fringe concern among pro-life groups, many are starting to believe that IVF poses a serious threat to society’s understanding of pre-born human dignity.

Published in Canada
September 24, 2018

Fertility treatment for gay, single women harms society, French bishops say

The LGBT rainbow flag is displayed on the facade of the National Assembly in Paris.
PARIS – The French bishops said proposals to extend fertility treatments to lesbian couples and single women would harm society by removing fatherhood from the lives of children.
Published in International
July 23, 2015

Polish bishops condemn IVF law, warn Catholics to not use process

Poland’s bishops said they were disappointed by a new law, signed by the outgoing Polish president, allowing artificial insemination. Catholic teaching says human sexuality is unitive and procreative whereas in vitro fertilization (IVF) separates the two and focuses on procreation. Most embryos conceived through IVF die, are frozen for later use or are discarded. This goes against Church teachings that human lives must be respected.

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Catholic bishops condemned a law allowing state funding for in vitro fertilization, which was signed into law July 22 by outgoing President Bronislaw Komorowski despite a seven-year church campaign to block it.

Published in International
March 29, 2015

In vitro moms pressured to abort some fetuses

A lab director inspects the microinjection of sperm into an egg cell using a microscope in this July 2011 photo at an in vitro fertilization clinic.

GATINEAU, QUE. - Women who achieve multiple pregnancies through in vitro fertilization are increasingly being pressured to abort all but one of the babies, a conference on life and family was told.

Published in Canada
February 3, 2015

England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents

Verona Blumenauer, director of the Kinderwunschzentrum Leipzig Laboratory in Germany, inspects the microinjection of sperm into an egg cell using a microscope in this July 2011 photo at the in vitro fertilization clinic. Bioethicists and pro-life leader s criticized a new "benefit" Facebook and Apple have offered to female employees -- paying for them to freeze their eggs and delay having children. The Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha, Neb., also reported that more effective options exist for infertile couples than in vitro fertilization.

CANTERBURY, England - Members of Parliament voted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people to try to eradicate a type of genetic disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of babies.

Published in International