The Risks to the Life and Health of Children Conceived using Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Very interesting read!  by Patrick Carr           The birth of Louise Brown, the first baby to be born as a result of in vitro fertilization, on 25th July, 1978, had the effect of silencing much of the debate which had raged over this procedure for years while it was being developed. [1]   To all appearances, those who [...]

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Double Whammy!

A recent British study shows that children conceived by IVF have increased health problems and spend almost double the time in hospital than naturally conceived children, the Daily Mail reports.
 
Bearing this in mind why would you want to resort to IVF?? 

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Per Faith

Human life does not begin at conception…WOW!
 As per Faith over at INVISIBLE GRIEF:Embryo’s are not “children” for one thing.
Embryos are embryos, that if things go well, implantation occurs, the embryo thrives, then in the end you might have a child…and that is in a NATURAL conception as well as an assisted one. Most embryos by [...]

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Just for Faith: BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

You can read the WHOLE article here 
1. The Difference Between “Making” and “Doing
            Long ago Aristotle clearly distinguished between “making” and “doing,” and St. Thomas Aquinas, following the “Philosopher,” commented on the significance of this difference.[1] In making, the action proceeds from an agent or agents to something in the external world, to a product. Autoworkers, [...]

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BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

You can read the WHOLE article here 
1. The Difference Between “Making” and “Doing
            Long ago Aristotle clearly distinguished between “making” and “doing,” and St. Thomas Aquinas, following the “Philosopher,” commented on the significance of this difference.[1] In making, the action proceeds from an agent or agents to something in the external world, to a product. Autoworkers, for [...]

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Sperm Donor Ordered to Pay Child Support for 18-Year-Old

Sometimes i have to ponder what are people and the courts thinking? This man tried to be nice by donating his sperm to a gay colleague and now gets hit with child support.It seems that people and the courts can’t decided what makes a family.If people just followed the churches teaching, there wouldn’t be any [...]

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My Daddy is My Grandpa?

Does anybody else see a problem with this?
Sperm donor, 72, to father his own grandchild
A man of 72 is to donate sperm to try to father his own ‘grandchild’.
He has been cleared to provide the sperm to his daughter-in-law to allow her to become a mother.
Any baby born will be its grandfather’s genetic child and [...]

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In Vitro Fertilization Undermines Human Dignity

I can honestly say that I do not understand the desperation that drives some couples to IVF. But I can say that having children is not a “right” it is simply put a “gift”. To drive yourself to such desperate measures that you could and more than likely have killed the one thing that you “want” so badly. [...]

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