Cnn Fertility Clinic To Couple

[Sojourner]

[quote name='dUSt' date='23 September 2009 - 06:59 PM' timestamp='1253746756' post='1971793']
Wow, great points.

The couple has a legal right to kill the baby now, but doesn't have a legal right to keep the baby after it's born. What if the couple went to teh genetic parents and said, "Look, we either keep the baby or we kill it--it's up to you."
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I know, right? It's a really awful position to be in.

The thing is, while Catholics at least have some degree of moral guidance on IVF, there are plenty of non-Catholic couples who go into this with the best of intentions, clearly wanting to be open to life (even though making misguided efforts to do so). To find yourself in this type of moral quandary when you're trying to do a good thing is really sad. And how awful they would never be able to have contact with the baby they prayed for and nurtured for 9 months.

[CatherineM]

It's wonderful that they decided against abortion. Many people would have ended the pregnancy and not look back.

[zunshynn]

[quote]"When you're pouring your money, your heart, and your soul into creating an embryo and creating a life, the last thing you want to think about is how you're going to dispose of it," says Anne Drapkin Lyerly, M.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center. Until the storage fee comes due.[/quote]

From a [url="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/01/extra.ivf.embryos/index.html"]linked article[/url]about left over embryos from IVF. Of course the most important thing is the money.

[tinytherese]

I believe in the adoption option. I can't imagine how different my family's life would be without my cousin being adopted.

[princessgianna]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='23 September 2009 - 02:33 PM' timestamp='1253734399' post='1971624']
How can they be "obligated" to turn over the baby to the "DNA parents" when she has the legal right to kill the baby? Isn't it "hers"?
Now, maybe they want to do that and are saying that they have to, but do they legally? So complicated....
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That was what I was thinking...

[quote name='Terra Firma' date='23 September 2009 - 04:58 PM' timestamp='1253743112' post='1971761']
AFAIK, and I have not looked into it too deeply, this is still an area that is being explored in the legal world -- embryos as property, that is. For example, if a couple creates embryos but divorces before they can be implanted, who has the right to say what happens to the embryos? Is the ex-husband required to provide support if he does not want implantation but the wife does? This is the same sort of situation ... when the wrong embryo is implanted, who "owns" it, and can you really "own" another human being? Is an embryo property or a human being? If the woman here had not carried to term, but had instead aborted, could the DNA parents have sued her for damages?

It is a legal nightmare, frankly, and there are plenty of moral conundrums accompanying each of these scenarios.
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When will people learn doing it God's way is the best way!

Edited September 24, 2009 by princessgianna

[mommas_boy]

Thanks be to God that they are at least planning on not aborting the baby, and are also planning on giving the baby to his/her rightful parents. Still, never IVF ...

[MissyP89]

I suppose that this is just another example that things are bound to go wrong when humans try to play God. Praying for this poor family, though.

[tinytherese]

I once heard about something called natural fertility management so that a couple can conceive. It was on some EWTN show last month.

[dauntingknight]

Maybe if we stopped playing God.....

these things would never happen!

Edited September 24, 2009 by dauntingknight