Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealt the Devil. Stern is certainly not the Devil, and Baby M. is not Whitehead's soul. But the emotions that were being traded have a soul-like sanctity in the sense that they belong to the mysteries of the species and are commonly shared. This is what the Vatican suggested when it recently condemned all artificial practices regarding birth, and one does not have to agree with that blanket condemnation to appreciate its basis. Whatever Stern and Whitehead thought their pact was about, they were trafficking in goods too elusive to package and too universal for personal property. What...
...slight-gags and one-liners also Forsyth. "The language at this school is fookin' atrocious," a student complains to Vic. When a bank taller asks Father Cobb for his identification, he responds with a puzzled look and points to his clerical collar. In the waiting room at the Vatican, there is an Orthodox...
...stern Vatican declaration denounces surrogate motherhood and most of the other artificial techniques of human reproduction...
Even though it was armed with earlier papal speeches on biological ethics, Rome decided to prepare a formal document in response to requests from many bishops as the new techniques were becoming more widespread. In fact, some worried Catholics think the Vatican has been too cautious, rather than too bold, by waiting so long to speak out. The Pontifical Council for the Family has received letters from scores of couples, most of them American, asking for guidance or expressing concern about the technologies. The doctrinal congregation spent 20 months writing the text, consulting some 60 moral theologians and 22 scientists...
...teaching on abortion. "It's a document born into obsolescence. Rome is speaking to the Catholic right wing and from the Catholic right wing." Edward Marut, a Chicago-area Catholic doctor and fertility expert, 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...