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Originally Posted by Exile
Yet it has no problem with fertility clinics, where unused fertilized eggs are also discarded. How selective.
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This statement is wrong. It is against church teaching to use fertility clinics like this, particularly when using sperm or eggs from donors, but even when using sperm and eggs from the husband and wife. Medication and the like to encourage healthy egg production or sperm production is ok, though.
I knew this, but to be absolutely sure, I just looked in my "Catechism of the Catholic Church" book. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave approval for this book to be printed. That is, the pope before he became the pope.
What some Catholics DO vs. what the church teaches, of course, is sometimes different, so that may be why you were confused. I'm sure there is no Catholic bashing going on here, right?