Thank you for your mindfully reasoned and encouraging comments that are truly cherished. As you know, it cannot be stressed enough that what is technologically possible does not make it ethically or morally right. In vitro fertilization, surrogate "motherhood" artificial insemination etc. constitute a weighty infringement and desecration of the dignity of the person and sacredness (and inviolability) of marriage that is entirely contrary to the natural and divine law. Those inherently evil practices involve various dimensions of pervertedness including: in donor insemination, the irresponsibility of the donor fathering a child; the third-party intrusion of the exclusive marriage covenant ("mechanical adultery"); and the donor's onanistic - gravely sinful act (masturbation) - in donating his paternal seed. Any process that isolates the sacred act of human generation from the intimate conjugal union of the marriage act itself is contradictory with the holiness and "intimate personalism" of that two-in-one-flesh union which exclusively is suitable for the generation of a child. Generating life artificially is also intrinsically immoral since if the resulting embryonic children are subnormal or are not developing normally, they come to be undesired and rejected, and are disposed of as though they were merely faulty or deficient products. And an embryonic child is Not an object! The Jones Institute (one of the pioneers of in vitro fertilization) reported that only 10-20% of the human embryos result in an actual pregnancy. In 1998 according to The Centers for Disease Control 28,000 babies were born via IVF in the US, which means that 140,000 -280,000 human embryos met a farcical doom - either were killed, stored alive in freezers or washed down the drain! It is an undisputed scientific fact that human life begins at fertilization/conception. From that moment on, it has a unique and complete genetic code, her or his development entirely coordinated from within, and thus must be unconditionally protected and recognized as having inviolable rights of a person.

May we be absolutely unyielding in the battle against such repulsive immoral practices and in the battle for the rights of the unborn...
May The Author of Life and Love bless you superabundantly... DKK