Children born from in vitro are products of sin?
Imagine being a lifelong catholic and being told that the way you had your children, despite it being your egg and your husband's sperm, and despite no embryos being harmed in this film, you are breaking catholic doctrine? Huh?
AP Wire | 05/10/2006 | Teacher says she was fired over in vitro:
MILWAUKEE - Kelly Romenesko was teaching French at two Roman Catholic schools in Appleton when she and her husband decided to start a family using in vitro fertilization.
After asking for some time off in September 2004 to complete the procedure, the lifelong Catholic gave her boss an update about a month later: She was pregnant.
But only days after that, she said, she got a pink slip by the Catholic school system. Administrators, according to her lawyer James C. Jones, claimed Romenesko violated a provision of her employment contract saying a teacher has to act in accordance with Catholic doctrine.
"All she was trying to do was have a child, which of course should be a wonderful thing," Jones said Tuesday.
In vitro fertilization involves extracting eggs from a woman's ovaries and fertilizing them with sperm in a laboratory dish or test tube. The fertilized eggs are implanted into the woman's uterus.
Catholic teaching holds that the procedure is morally wrong because it replaces the "natural" conjugal union between husband and wife and often results in destruction of embryos.