Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez contrasts former president Donald Trump’s recent championing of IVF with the approach to the topic taken by the novel and movie adaption, “Someone Like You.” She argues that Catholics can learn from the more narrative approach to the
Serenity Quesnelle saw six fertility doctors, went through multiple procedures and braved surgery in the hopes of conceiving a child. After four years, one of her doctors felt that nothing more could be done and asked Quesnelle to write down the number
The Catholic Church’s teaching that in vitro fertilization contradicts God’s design for marriage is controversial. To some couples who are unable to conceive by normal means, IVF seems like an opportunity to get the child they desire. But the Our Sunday Visitor
A reader writes: “Wasn’t Mary a surrogate mother? Did she not bear a son for someone other than her husband, Joseph? Jesus was the Son of God. Was he not conceived by artificial insemination? She didn’t have intercourse with anyone. … I
Alabama's Republican Gov. Kay Ivey March 6 signed into law a bill passed by lawmakers to grant legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after a ruling by that state's Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state
On March 6, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama signed into law Senate Bill 159 in response to a controversial ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that classified frozen embryos from in vitro fertilization processes as children under the State's Wrongful Death of
Alabama lawmakers in both the state's House and Senate Feb. 29 passed similar bills to implement legal protections to in vitro fertilization clinics following a ruling by that state's Supreme Court that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law's wrongful
In January, Pope Francis condemned surrogacy, and in February, the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos are children. Together, these events thrust the Church’s condemnation of IVF and surrogacy into the public eye. Our Sunday Visitor columnist Kenneth Craycraft explains the
When the Alabama Supreme Court recently recognized the personhood of embryos, it gave legal standing to something the church has clearly established: An embryo is a human being and should be treated with the dignity and rights due to all people, especially
Former President Donald Trump on Feb. 23 responded to the Alabama Supreme Court's in vitro fertilization ruling in a statement saying he supports the "availability of IVF" and calling on the state's Legislature to "act quickly to find an immediate solution" to