Forget Ovaltine. More $IVOB Please!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:59 am Posted by
A few weeks ago, The Dean taught the CollegeStock Community why he thinks $IVOB Could Gain Support from the Catholic Church. In addition, The Dean has taught the CollegeStock Community that he believes $IVOB‘s INVO procedure may be considered a more moral and ethical infertility treatment because
- it only uses 2 embryos and does not promote the production of excess embryos
- allows for conception to take place more naturally; and
- it limits the amount of stimulants and medications often used during conventional IVF
The recent news in the world of Catholicism is the approval of the letters Love and Life in the Divine Plan, which defines marriage as a union between man and woman, and Life-Giving Love in an Age of Technology, which debates the morality of IVF.
Although this article doesn’t address specific infertility treatments, such as $IVOB‘s INVO procedure, it sheds more light on the reasons why the Catholic Church is less likely to condone IVF. One of the largest reasons is that IVF is often looked at as taking away the marital act of procreation from a married couple—injecting sperm into an egg in the woman’s body, for example.
The article states rather clearly that the Church views “any conception that bypasses sexual intercourse” as immoral. But, as The Dean has always been one to do his homework, The Dean has found that the Vatican has neither outlawed nor accepted any form of IVF.
An article from The Washington Times references the letter from the bishops, “The terrible plight of abandoned frozen embryos underscores the need for our society to end practices such as IVF,” it said, “that regularly produce so many ‘spare’ or unwanted human beings.”
Certainly, the push for the Catholic Church is for infertile couples to choose adoption over IVF but The Dean believes frozen and often discarded embryos is a large factor in this decision—and The Dean knows that frozen embryos are not part of $IVOB‘s INVO procedure.
As IVF is legal and has become more acceptable, available and widespread, The Dean believes that the debate over the morality of infertility treatments will continue but could ultimately side with a more natural, less expensive infertility treatment which results in fewer discarded embryos and multiple births, and values the lives of the female patient and unborn child.
Forget Ovaltine, The Dean says, “More $IVOB, Please.”
