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S.A. McCarthy


NextImg:Catholics Cannot Endorse the President’s IVF Mandate

Since returning to the White House on January 20, President Donald Trump has worked tirelessly to restore freedom, sovereignty, safety, and prosperity to the American nation and to secure the same for future generations.

IVF does not solve this issue or address the roots of the infertility crisis, it only masks some of the symptoms, and at a profound moral cost.
Despite the bitter and, frankly, hypocritical remonstrations of U.S. Catholic bishops, many of Trump’s bold policy positions — such as securing the nation’s borders, deporting illegal immigrants who wantonly violate the nation’s laws, and working to ensure that American Christians are protected, instead of targeted, by the federal government — are laudable and are firmly in line with the moral and social teachings of the Catholic Church.
However, the president’s recent executive order “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization” cannot be supported by any Catholic and must instead be vocally condemned. Significantly, the Catholic Church condemns the practice as immoral. The use of rapidly advancing technologies to address issues of infertility is not, in and of itself, immoral, according to the Vatican’s Donum Vitae, but the use of certain procedures and technologies is rendered immoral when they violate either the order that God has ordained or the dignity of the human person. In vitro fertilization (IVF) does both.
First, when God created man and woman and instituted the sacrament of marriage, he ordained that children should be created by means of sexual intercourse. IVF has “made it possible to procreate apart from sexual relations,” Donum Vitae clarifies. This is itself a grave moral evil. The primary purpose of sex is not pleasure, as the secularists and hedonists proclaim, but procreation. The two are inherently and intrinsically inseparable. It is for this reason that such things as masturbation, contraception, homosexual acts, and, to a certain extent, abortion are similarly condemned by the Church....

No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here.

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