Before reading this, if you and your spouse have gone down the path of IVF, you may find this difficult to read. This blog posting suggests that the path of IVF involves a husband giving up, at least part of his leadership and a wife submitting to someone other than her husband. Also suggested is that this step is outside of God’s design for marriage. These conclusions can be debated. In marriage, husbands often allow others to, in a sense, take the lead in various decisions that impact upon their wives. … Read the rest
Monthly Archives: January 2013
IVF – Possible Where Abortion Accepted
To date In Vitro Fertilization involves the destruction of tiny human beings. Conception (the joining of the egg and the sperm) occurs in a glass dish. For each successful pregnancy, many conceived human lives are lost along the way. This means that for a doctors to become involved in IVF that they need to live with their involvement in the destruction of early tiny humans.
How is it possible for a doctors to arrive at the point where they would be willing to involve themselves in such destruction of tiny human beings? … Read the rest
IVF – Babies’ Hostile Beginnings
Compare the natural way of procreation to In Vitro Fertilization’s way of reproduction.
In the natural process of having babies a husband loves his wife, the wife submits to the advances of her husband and they share an intimate sexual union that results in the conception of a loved child in the supportive environment of the mothers fallopian tube and then in her womb. This child is with the mother from the very beginning, nurtured by the mother’s very life blood.… Read the rest
Euthanasia – Definition – Human
Before considering the relationship of euthanasia to personhood, it is important to consider what I mean by euthanasia.
I am using the following definition of euthanasia:
Euthanasia involves a person (or persons) actively ending the life of another person, for what are considered compassionate reasons, with consent of (or by request of) the person or a person who is the appropriate decision maker for the person whose life is being ended.
Euthanasia involves the taking of a life for what are considered compassionate reasons. … Read the rest