someone say something
Sunday, August 27, 2006
♥ Sunday, August 27, 2006
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Today's talk by Correen was v gd. There was a certain section about IVF & Surrogate Mums that is on my mind. I do want to start off a tiny debate, because i still am unsettled about the church's stand.
I believe the notion of basically having a child formed by means, other than intercourse, is a debatable issue.
While one may argue that it is not natural, I might ask 'what is natural?' And is un-natural all that bad? If we establish 'natural' as that which is not intervened by humans, then we should perhaps compare the means of transportation. It used to be walking, wasnt it? Well, I guess today we all can say driving, is faster and more efficient from bringing one from A to B, than walking. Inventions or rather, 'human intervention' on many occasions, though un-natural, are for good ends.
In this case, we have a mother who's ovulating,as per normal, but is unable to conceive because of her uterus lining (too thin to house the embryo). Both parents want a child, and believe that their family is not complete without one. It is established both parents love each other, and by way of catholic understanding, enjoys sex and advocates the sacred-ness of the act. How is it in any way, a 'wrong' thing to do, should the father decides to fertilize the mother's egg by means of technology, to create a child thats theirs? No messing around with the genome, no creating of some perfect baby, just a child. So basically, God's still in control of the permutation and combination of the DNA, and thus the result that is the child is really still up to Him right?
Yes, it is not direct. Direct here meaning, that through sexual intercourse, the mother becomes pregnant. Question is, so what? It is a longer process that achieves a similar end. Lets talk Christian. Fundamentally, its about salvation. Its about Jesus, and believing. Its about love.
Extrapolating the idea of perhaps abortion, we can see why it is wrong, and ho
w there are no 2 ways about it. (Abortionismurder.org, find out the truth about it.)
But this? I am not able to have a child, because the means do not justify the ends? Thats such a thin argument. How is a child, created not by means of sex (not by choice but by dire circumstances), a hindrance to salvation and Jesus's love? Is the love the child receives any less pure? Is it tainted by the mother who 'tom-pang'? Even the most dejected adoptee finds love and nourishment from a caring adopter, much less a child who was merely housed in his or her developing foetal stages and then returned to her biological mother?
People bring up the idea of adoption. Think about it this way: it is preferable to care for
a child that is not yours, than to care for your child who just happened to be created differently? I do not understand. Playing God they say. Ladies and Gentleman, it is divine to experience loving a child and the reciprocal love of the child. Is there not a certain spiritual element to the happiness of a family?
Contraception vs IVF/ Surrogate mothers.
One is by choice, another is subjected to circumstances.
One promotes the seeking of pleasure from antoher, another is simply seeking to complete what a family should be.
One is an obstacle to, while the other facilitates birth.
Is it heretical to say the church needs to move with the times? Of course not. There are reasons to which this phenomenon, where men and women are having more problems conceiving- the environment, the promiscous lifestyles, their eating habits, whatever. From a certain perspective, one could say Man brought this upon himself. However, the problems Man bring to himself, Man strives to resolve.
This usually comes in the form of medical science, or some new technology to make clean the environment. Is it wrong to say, that IVF and surrogation is Man's attempt at recovering from the damage they themselves created? I do not believe so. Perhaps if the church can see it from such a light, that as before, when people had to pay indulgences for their salvation, Man's relentless search today for cures and means to maintain or build what is trully good is similar to that, I guess there will really be alot less fretting over.
The 'bundles of joy', they say, have become what Kenny says, one huge question mark.
Today's talk by Correen was v gd. There was a certain section about IVF & Surrogate Mums that is on my mind. I do want to start off a tiny debate, because i still am unsettled about the church's stand.
w there are no 2 ways about it. (Abortionismurder.org, find out the truth about it.)
a child that is not yours, than to care for your child who just happened to be created differently? I do not understand. Playing God they say. Ladies and Gentleman, it is divine to experience loving a child and the reciprocal love of the child. Is there not a certain spiritual element to the happiness of a family?