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Mary Beth Whitehead signed an agreement stipulating that, in return for $10,000, she would permit herself to be impregnated by William Stern's sperm, carry the product of that union in her womb and then surrender the resulting child to Stern. Sorkow refused to see so straight forward an agreement obscured. He prohibited any discussion of the nature of the bond between mother and child and barred testimony about the legality of surrogate parenting...
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...
Though the techniques in question may be complex, Rome's doctrinal opposition to them stems from two simple, if controverted, principles. The first, which also undergirds the church's stance against abortion, holds that from the point when sperm and egg unite, a fertilized egg or embryo must be accorded, in the words of the document, the "unconditional respect that is morally due to the human being." That rules out the embryo manipulations that are often necessary in the research and application of a number of the reproductive techniques. This view provides an argument against the in vitro technique because...
Many Protestants share the Vatican's alarm over the ever braver worlds of human reproduction that advanced biomedical techniques have made possible. Clinics are now assisting in fertilizations involving donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos, single women and lesbian couples. Lawyer George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University's School of Medicine, notes the possibility that a child could have five different parents: the father who donates sperm, the mother who produces the ovum, the mother who provides the womb, and the mother and the father who raise the child...
...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 to sacrifice...