Description

The importance of this article, which addresses the moral problems inherent in in vitro fertilization, has recently been accentuated by the active commitment to this immoral practice made in early 2025 by US President Donald Trump. The article was originally printed as Chapter 22 of a more comprehensive work, Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality, edited by Deborah Savage and Robert Fastiggi. This book is available on the publisher's website at Enroute. The author’s intention is to explain “some of the underlying reasons that illuminate the beauty of Church teaching on the origin of human life” and to “give an overview of the reasons why the Magisterium teaches that in vitro fertilization (IVF) is morally illicit.“ The text is in PDF form and may be read by following the link provided.

Larger Work

Lived Experience and the Search for Truth

Pages

469-510

Publisher & Date

En Route Books and Media, LLC, 2024