Word: husbanded
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Sales of the book, in English and Afrikaans, have topped 25,000 and kept it on the nonfiction best-seller list for a year, a huge success in a country where nonfiction books usually sell no more than 5,000 copies. Husband-and- Wife Authors Leon Louw and Frances Kendall say they decided to write the book because those who oppose the apartheid system "know what they are against but need something to be for." Says Louw: "The struggle in this country is over who should dominate whom -- that is, who controls the very powerful central government. Our solution entails...
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION. This is the oldest and by far the most common of the techniques prohibited. The Instruction not only opposes the introduction into a womb of sperm from a "third party" donor other than the husband but rejects the use of a husband's sperm. The first condemnation of artificial insemination came in a 1949 speech by Pope Pius XII, but the teaching has been ignored by many Catholic couples and disputed by some theologians...
...second principle is that reproduction should occur, as the Instruction says, only "in marriage through the specific and exclusive acts of husband and wife," that is, normal sexual intercourse. In the Vatican view, couples must combine the "unitive" (sexual) and the "procreative" aspects of marriage. Artificial methods of producing children consider only procreation, says Rome, while artificial methods of birth control consider only the sexual aspect. Since artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization bypass the normal "conjugal act," neither method is allowed...
...Pope and his doctrinal watchdogs find these developments violations of the dignity of the nascent human life, transgressions of the child's right to be born into a natural family, interference with natural sexual reproduction between husband and wife, or attempts at sinister scientific "control and domination" over the human person. In addition, the Instruction expresses fears that reproductive technology invites discrimination among human beings, weakened protection for vulnerable people, and eugenic schemes to fashion a more desirable super-race...
...says childless Catholics are "incensed" at the church's tough line. Two days after the Vatican's prohibition was issued, Susan Fitter, 33, of Lawton, Okla., who has been trying to have a child for four years, went ahead with her decision to use in vitro fertilization with her husband's sperm for later implantation in a surrogate carrier. She has decided that she would leave the church rather than submit to the teaching. Says she: "I simply will not remain a Roman Catholic. Children are the No. 1 priority of my husband and me, and we're willing...