IVF, Contraceptives and Abortion

• Inviolability of Life

  All humans from the moment of conception (fertilization) and through all subsequent stages is sacred. Thus, all have the duty to affirm, respect, love and defend it.
• Violation of the Inviolability of Life principle occurs in: abortion, in vitro-fertilization and stem cell research.
• Stewardship


  Man must take care, cultivate, creatures within the creature's innate nature and teleology and within man's knowledge and understanding.
• Violations of the Stewardship principle arises in: surgical sterility, substitution of reproduction, use of hormones, intra-uterine devices (IUD) donation of sperm or egg genetic manipulation.
• Respect for Person

  1. Not to be denatured/destroyed. 2) to be an end and not a means to an end.
• Issues and violations of Respect for Person arise in: artificial methods of reproduction (like: IVF and AID or AIH), cloning, contraception, commodification of sperm/egg, uterus dysfunction, and embryonic manipulation.
• In Vitro Fertilization and Embryonic Transfer (IVF-ET)


  Gametes are separately harvested, some zygotes are fertilized in 'Petri Dish', some zygotes are implanted into the mother, and unwanted embryos may be removed.
• IVF-ET is not in conformity with the principles of

  • Inviolability of Life (some unwanted zygote are allowed to die)
  • Stewardship (the procedure is artificial and it substitutes the conjugal act)
  • Non maleficence (the baby may develop the 'genealogical bewilderment syndrome', also, if sperm is from a donor, the unknown biological lineage may lead to incest or inherited diseases. Mothers are psychologically harm by series of unsuccessful attempt)
  • Justice (if private funds are used the prohibitive cost limits availability to the rich. If public funds are used, more essential needs are abandoned)
  • Respect for Person (the human body, the uterus, sperm egg becomes commodities trafficked, transferred or sold; the baby is not a gift but a product of other's will to be disposed of as desired (the unused embryo; 'take home' baby in term of wasted babies are often not shared with parents)
• Contraception


  Any action which in anticipation of the conjugal act or in its accomplishment or in the development of its natural consequences, whether as an end or means, prevents the creation of new life (anti-life). Contraceptives treat fertility as a negative value that should be suppressed.
• Contraception violates or is nonconformity to the principles of

  • Inviolability of Life (drugs and devices that inhibit fertilized ovum transport to and implantation in the uterus or its development are abortificient. They kill the fetus)
  • Stewardship (it promotes hedonistic mentality with refusal to accept the reproductive responsibility of sexual or to recognize a new human being. (perhaps as god is the final Creator))
  • Nonmaleficence (castration removes a healthy organ, tubal occlusion or ligation and vasectomy prevents a healthy function. IUD promotes infection as well. Contraception as well promotes a premarital sex, extramarital sex, or homosexuality)
  • Respect for Person (to have one spouse use the other spouse as a means for one's satisfaction or pleasure is a sign of disrespect)
• Abortion


  The process of deliberately terminating pregnancy with the resulting death of an entity or it is a process of deliberately terminating pregnancy at any stage of its development.
• Types of Abortion


  • Direct abortion or induced: it a kind of abortion with the intentional of immediate purpose of ending or destroying the fetus at any stage of after its conception.
  • Indirect abortion is a process of terminating pregnancy directly in which the moral object of the action is the therapy of the mother and the death of the fetus is a side effect that is inevitably unavoidable effect. Ex., removal of pathological tube containing a fertilized ovum in an ectopic pregnancy, removal of the cancerus gravid uterus.
• Methods of Abortion


  • Injection with concentration saline (salt) (it is an injection of a concentrated saline solution into the theirmothers womb. It burns their skin off them while were still alive the babies breathe it in and swallow it, frying their insides. Some of babies were born alive despite this torture and are then 'disposed of')
  • Dilation and Evacuation Dilation (this is characterized by using a suction tube to remove the fetus and placenta)
  • Hysterotomy (abortion by caesarian surgery)
  • Vacuum aspiration (is a method by suctioning of the lining of the uterus through the use of a thin and flexible tube inserted through the opening of the cervix)
• Direct abortion violates the principles of natural reproduction.