1. The Basic Issue
A. Not just nature vs. technology
B. Fundamental Goods of the Human Person:
1. the child
2. marriage /
2. IVF and Other Technologies (cont)
A. Artificial Insemination (AI, IUI)
AIH
AID
B. In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) (unmarried, LBGT, etc.)
→surrogacy, Preimplantion Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
→ DNA manipulations: male eggs, female sperm /
3. Violating Marriage and the Marital Act
A. What’s at stake in: Artificial Insemination (AI, IUI)
AIH, AID, surrogacy: marriage and the marital act
B. A Practical Body-Self Dualism /
4. Marriage
Community
formed by a Man and Woman
Who have consented to share their lives,
would be fulfilled by bearing and raising children together /
5. Sexual Act Within Marriage
A. Embodies the marital act
1. the two become one flesh
2. literally: biologically one
3. concretizes their total marital union /
6. Procreation and Marriage
A. Marriage is the Procreative Community
B. Procreation: the intrinsic fulfillment of marriage
C. But not the direct object of their act
D. Child: a Gift that supervenes on their marital communion /
7. Respect for Marriage and the Marital Act
A. Open to Life: no contraception
B. becoming one flesh: not with unmarried (AID), or surrogacy /
8. AIH, IVF
A. Respect for the Child
B. The child is viewed as a product
C. Should come to be as gift
D. not an assessment of the child, but of the way the child is brought into being
IVF Continued
D. Implications of the Act
1. about marriage: not intrinsically linked
2. about the sexual act: production vs. union—the two are no longer viewed as connected
3. Sex, marriage, procreation: disconnected
9. Marriage and Family
A. Right of the Child to come to be in a family—with two parents, a mother and a father
Not always possible: but should not be deliberately deprived of family
10. Different Types of IVF
A. AID: adultery, dualistic view of persons, mechanistic view of the body
B. AIH: bodily acts viewed as mere instruments, union is disconnected and so not viewed as constitutive of family
C. Two mommies? 3 parents? : Dualism
11. NaproEthics
A. Medically: attempt to find real problem
B. Respect for the body
C. Respect for Marriage and Marital Act:
1. open to life
2. child viewed as gift (assists, not substitute)
3. marriage and family viewed as child’s right
D. Proper Reverence ///