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...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 in that process unused fertilized eggs are discarded. However, Dr. Martin Quigley, a Cleveland fertilization expert, denies that any U.S. IVF program "would routinely destroy" an embryo. Claiming the Vatican has been misinformed, he insists that most "spare" embryos are kept for later attempts at pregnancy...
...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...
...hope for children fertilized in vitro is that their parents are as diligent in raising their offspring as they are in making babies...
...obstetrics waiting room at Norfolk's in-vitro clinic, a woman sits crying. Thirty-year-old Michel Jones and her husband Richard, 33, a welder at the Norfolk Navy yard, have been through the program four times, without success. Now their insurance company is refusing to pay for another attempt, and says Richard indignantly, "they even want their money back for the first three times." On a bulletin board in the room is a sign giving the schedule for blood tests, ultrasound and other medical exams. Beside it hangs a small picture of a soaring bird and the message...
...vitro fertilization (IVF) now accounts for about 100 babies in the U.S., but there are virtually no new laws to deal with this method of conception. In the wake of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, however, many states passed laws forbidding or limiting "experimentation" with fetuses. Of the 25 such state laws, eleven specifically apply to embryos; doctors in some of these states fear that they might be prosecuted for carrying out the IVF, particularly if the technique fails, as it does about four times out of five. And six states have laws that seem to forbid...