Fertility: In Vitro Fertilization (I.V.F.)
An ART procedure that involves removing eggs from a woman’s ovaries and fertilizing them in a petri dish. Some of the resulting embryos are then transferred into the woman’s uterus through the cervix, others are destroyed or frozen for later use.

Moral Evaluation
This method is intrinsically evil and thus it is immoral.

Why is it Immoral?

• It separates the unitive and procreative aspects of sexual intercourse.
• A child is conceived impersonally in a petri dish violating his or her right to be born under his or her mother’s heart.
• The marital act is replaced by the physician as the means of the generation of new life.
• Cryopreservation of the embryo’s violates the child’s rights to be born after the normal gestational period and to flourish in society. He or she lives in suspended animation indefinitely.
• There is a greater chance these children may be destroyed, another method of abortion.

IVF leads to genetic manipulation and eugenics, the weeding out of undesirable genetic traits and designer babies.