in vitro fertilization
How Catholic is our president? The view from the SOTU.
By Charles C. Camosy — March 11, 2024
(RNS) — President Joe Biden had the opportunity to show the complexity of Catholic thought.
For infertile couples, the fate of frozen embryos is deeply personal
By Bob Smietana — March 6, 2024
(RNS) — A recent ruling in Alabama that declared frozen embryos to be children has led to fierce debates in politics and on social media. For families who have leftover embryos, the issues are more personal. And the ruling raised important ethical issues about IVF.
Why I Chose to Have a Baby on My Own + Annie Parsons
By Roxanne Stone — November 9, 2023
Katelyn and Roxy talk to a friend who made the decision to put dating on hold and become a mother on her own. We discuss process, finances, a bit of theology and a lot of love.
In ‘My Body, Their Baby,’ a scholar explores the theology of surrogacy
By Bob Smietana — October 6, 2023
(RNS) — In her new book, Grace Kao, a Christian ethicist, recounts carrying a child for friends — and how that experience shaped her theology.
3 Jewish women file suit against Kentucky abortion bans on religious grounds
By Yonat Shimron — October 7, 2022
(RNS) — It's the third such suit brought by Jewish organizations or individuals since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, claiming the state is imposing a Christian understanding of when life begins.
What good is faith when your fertility treatments aren’t working?
By Amy Klein — August 3, 2020
(RNS) — Some of the biggest faith-based challenges of infertility may be existing in a family-centered community.
HHS Civil Rights Office to protect freedom of conscience
By Thomas Reese — January 19, 2018
When HHS does get around to writing its rules, it would do well to listen to the Catholic Health Association in developing rules that protect individual consciences but do not discriminate.
England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents
By Trevor Grundy — February 3, 2015
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) If the bill passes Britain’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, England would become the first country to legalize the procedure.
Pope warns against the ‘false sense of compassion’ in euthanasia
By Josephine McKenna — November 17, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pope has condemned the assisted suicide movement, which he considers to be a symptom of today's "throw-away culture" that views the sick and elderly as a drain on society.
Italy’s Catholic bishops denounce court ruling that OK’d sperm donors
By Josephine McKenna — June 11, 2014
ROME (RNS) "None of us are the masters of anyone else, not even parents with respect to their own children," said the secretary-general of the Italian bishops’ conference, Monsignor Nunzio Galantino.
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