Stacy, it seems you are taking the long way around to saying we have to love embryos in the abstract, as we might love a long-lost relative we have never met. Or am I missing something?
Hi Stacy! I visited a nearby Benedictine Monastery and saw Sophia Press there and thought of you :) This reminds me of "the secret things belong to God" in Deuteronomy...and Romans they invent ways of doing evil;(
Undecided. The Church also has not clarified whether it is intrinsically immoral or not. It would be wrong if a couple wanted to use an embryo to answer their baby prayers (as if the embryo was at their service), but if a woman wanted to help an embryo live (putting herself at the service of the embryo), then as I understand it, this is permissible. Neither adoption nor death will solve the whole problem since there are millions of embryos in storage tanks who have already had their rights violated and more still being produced. The only ultimate solution would be to baptize them all, allow them to die with as much dignity as can still be respected given their "absurd fate", and then to end IVF completely.
Stacy, it seems you are taking the long way around to saying we have to love embryos in the abstract, as we might love a long-lost relative we have never met. Or am I missing something?
Hi Stacy! I visited a nearby Benedictine Monastery and saw Sophia Press there and thought of you :) This reminds me of "the secret things belong to God" in Deuteronomy...and Romans they invent ways of doing evil;(
It is interesting that as we grow older and face death, the challenge is how to let go of all those you love.
So how do you come down in embryo adoption vs letting them be as said dignitas personae
Undecided. The Church also has not clarified whether it is intrinsically immoral or not. It would be wrong if a couple wanted to use an embryo to answer their baby prayers (as if the embryo was at their service), but if a woman wanted to help an embryo live (putting herself at the service of the embryo), then as I understand it, this is permissible. Neither adoption nor death will solve the whole problem since there are millions of embryos in storage tanks who have already had their rights violated and more still being produced. The only ultimate solution would be to baptize them all, allow them to die with as much dignity as can still be respected given their "absurd fate", and then to end IVF completely.