Surrogacy involves a form of “trafficking” of children, implying that children are being bought and sold, treated as property and often transported across international borders, which, all in all, sums up many contemporary aspects of surrogacy.
Read MoreSetting a moral vision for one's children can be a Herculean task requiring enormous dedication.
Read MoreWe need to care for them in a more truthful way — accompanying, supporting, and helping them to address underlying issues — so they can begin to find real healing.
Read MoreThe commitments we make and faithfully fulfill are a source of stability and strength.
Read MoreVulnerable young people, caught up in the pressure of the moment, have too easily been drawn into life-altering pathways involving medications and scalpels with their frequently irreversible effects.
Read MoreMothers and fathers may have never discussed the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy to let their children know ahead of time that, even if they act contrary to their advice and conceive a child, they will still be there for them.
Read MoreNotwithstanding rapidly changing social mores, a truly civilized society will never prioritize the desires of adults ahead of the innate rights of vulnerable children.
Read More…we realize how the procreation of our own children is meant to involve a strict exclusivity between husband and wife.
Read MoreAt its core, the idea of a ‘wrongful birth’ claim is unreasonable and ethically incoherent.
Read MoreThe manner in which the [sexual] act takes place and the details surrounding it are essential to determining whether the act occurs in an authentically human way...
Read MoreSex, of course, has a certain power all its own, and both sides may be tempted to play with it in ways that are potentially damaging, all the more so when they decide to cohabit.
Read More...the home setting needs to differ from the outside world, serving as an oasis and a protected environment for children.
Read MoreParents are in the unique position of being able to model for their children a healthy example of sexual integration, generosity, and self-mastery within marriage.
Read MoreIt should be obvious how any approach that weakens or casts into question the integral connection between parents and their offspring will raise grave ethical concerns.
Read MoreA compassionate society seeks to help and assist orphaned children, but no reasonable society intentionally deprives those children of a mother or a father.
Read MoreA husband and wife are called to give themselves to each other completely and unreservedly, and to accept each other unconditionally in the marital embrace. Every child of theirs, whether entering the world with a handicap or not, is an expression and fruit of themselves and their acceptance of each other.
Read MoreWhat is not widely acknowledged is that men oftentimes suffer emotionally and spiritually from their loss. It seems fair to say that men are not generally encouraged to acknowledge their emotions around this issue – whether relief, grief, anger, or resentment.
Read MoreMarital acts are a way of ‘petitioning the Giver for his gifts.’ By insisting on or demanding the gift (through in vitro fertilization), the child is no longer that ‘gift’ but a kind of entitlement or project to be realized.
Read More…only the most cursory ethical reflection is needed to grasp the moral problem with creating human offspring in laboratories, using an admixture of cow components, in order to scientifically cannibalize them.
Read More…embryos are unfamiliar to us, so that we may react differently to them than we would to a fully formed baby. But it should also serve to remind us how embryos are not supposed to be familiar to us, and are not supposed to be in freezers in the first place, but only within the safe harbor of their mother’s womb.
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