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Originally Posted by cptacek
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?
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IF I'm wrong, cptacek, thanks for correcting me. No Catholic bashing here. Just dismay at what some Catholics DO in accordance with what the Church does teach. I'm speaking of the the clergy. For example here in the Philippines, the CBCP (Catholics Bishops Conference of the Philippines--a formidable lobby) in accordance with Church doctrine, opposes birth control. However, as far as I know, it does not support a single orphanage for the thousands of street children--many as young as four years old--who are the products of parents who cannot or will not provide for the large families that they produce because they are pressurd to have children whether they can afford them or not
Please do not tell me that this is not part of the teachings of the Church. I was at a Catholic wedding in which the priest exhorted the bride and groom to start having children immediately (obviously without consideration as to whether or not they were emotionally and/ or financially ready).