JoeB131
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Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
I understand the Church's reasoning and why they are against IVF. I just don't agree with it. Thoughts?
Are they asking you to agree with it? No.
Her decision. She knew she worked for the Catholic Church. You don't like the Catholic Church's views... fine... don't work for it.
Being that this is a forum for religion, I was more interested in everyone's thoughts on IVF from a religious viewpoint, not so much whether the Catholic Church had a right to fire this woman.
Fair enough.
I think the problem here is that as we understand the mechanics of reproduction, we can control it more, and the church is against that. The Church would rather have the infertile adopt kids who aren't aborted, and I guess morally, I don't have a problem with that.
I think the thing is, whether it be teh Catholic Church being against fertility medicine or the Jehovah's Witnesses being against Blood transfusions, you are going to get bizarre interpretations of scripture because scripture couldn't have anticipated these issues.
My thought. Screw the superstition and the sky pixies. Is IVF immoral on its face? Nope. It allows people who normally couldn't have babies to have them. The church's rather silly position that every zygote is a person is what the problem is here. In fact, 2/3rds of fertilized zygotes don't attach to the uterine wall. We don't have funerals for tampons.
But when you take an inflexible position, you got to follow it through all the way.