(August 5, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 3. "Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act which brings the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that "entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person." -CCC
But this commits the fundamental error of assuming that the two people haven't been "giving themselves to one another" repeatedly for years with no procreative outcome. It also assumes that the only way in which two people can "give themselves to one another" is through the act of sex.
And why must the sexual act and the procreative act be associated at all?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
