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False (p. 493)
True or False: According to the Catholic faith, a couple struggling with infertility should try in-vitro fertilization or surrogacy.
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It’s always strongly discouraged. In cases of rape or incest, abortion may occasionally be permitted, but it’s a very serious subject involving the woman and the Lord
According to the LDS church’s handbook, when is abortion permitted?
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At conception (p. 490, left page, first column, paragraph four)
When does the Catholic church believe life begins?
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The procreation of a new person involves the fidelity of each spouse in respect to their right to become a father and a mother only through each other (p. 492)
Why does the Catholic Church believe human procreation must take place in marriage?
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False (p. 491, right column, para 2)
True or False: According to the Catholic faith, freezing the embryo in order to save its life is morally permissible as embryos must be “defended in its integrity, tended and cared for, to the extent possible.”
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The church has no official stance on when life begins
According to the LDS church, when does life officially begin?
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True. Since an embryo must be treated as a person, it must be defended, tended and cared for, in the same way as any other human being (p. 490)
True or False: The Catholic church believes that since an embryo is a human being, it is to be respected and treated as a person, which includes the inviolable right to life.
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True - if the procedure were to replace the conjugal act, it is morally illicit (p. 495)
True or False: Artificial insemination is acceptable if the technical means facilitates the conjugal act or helps it to reach it natural objectives.
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1) The life of the human being call into existence and 2) the special nature of the transmission of human life in marriage (p. 489, first paragraph of Fundamental Criteria for a Moral Judgment)
According to the Catholic faith, what are the two fundamental values connected with the techniques of artificial human procreation?
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False
True or False: Reproductive technologies such as surgical sterilization are encouraged by the church.
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Pro: Thomson, Warren, Giubilini and Minerva, Hursthouse
Against: Catholic and LDS church, Kaczor
Which authors/organizations are generally pro choice and which are against?
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None
Under what circumstances does the catholic church believe in-vitro fertilization to be a valid option?
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These doctors are trying to exercise power over life and death, which belongs to God alone (p. 491, left column, paragraph 3)
How does the Catholic church regard doctors who do or encourage research on embryos, especially research that results in human life?
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No. They may only be sealed as a family with first presidency approval.
If a couple married and sealed in the temple have a child with the aid of a surrogate mother, is that child automatically sealed to them?
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Warren makes a distinction between a moral community and humans while the Catholic church makes no distinction.
What is one major difference between the Catholic Church and Warren’s view on humanity and the moral community?
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No. It is contrary to the unity of marriage, the dignity of the spouses, and to the child’s right to be conceived and brought into the world in marriage and from marriage (p. 492)
Does heterologous artificial fertilization conform to the dignity of the couple and to the truth of marriage?
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No, “certain attempts to influence chromosomal or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic… (491).” Gene therapy also requires IVF which is morally wrong, according to the Catholic church.
A Catholic mother has a genetic disorder and is concerned any child of hers will also have this disorder, according to their beliefs, how would her Catholic doctor advise her? Would he suggest embryonic gene therapy? Why or why not?
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Both artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization can “assist a married woman and man in their righteous desire to have children.” Children conceived by these methods are born in the covenant if their parents are already sealed.
What are our Church’s official views on “homologous artificial fertilization”?
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Domination over life and death, and radical eugenics (p. 492)
The article mentions the Abortion Mentality, and the dangers thereof. What dangers do they mention?
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By reason of the voluntarily achieved dissociation between sex and procreation (p. 495)
Why is it that artificial insemination is prohibited as a substitute for the conjugal act?
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