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Tuesday June 22, 2010


A.L.L. Joins International Call for Ban on In Vitro Technologies

By Kathleen Gilbert

Washington, D.C., June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The American Life League joined the U.K.’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) on Monday calling for a ban on all in vitro fertilization (IVF) practices. IVF routinely involves the massive loss of human life as “excess” embryonic children are discarded, frozen indefinitely, or fall victim to “selective termination” following implantation.

“We know that IVF kills preborn children. We know that IVF can cause severe birth defects in those children lucky enough to be brought to term. It is time for a ban on this barbaric practice,” said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League (ALL).

“I can think of no greater affront to human dignity than mixing human sperm with human ova via a petri dish,” she continued. “The result is a human being brought into the world not as a pure gift of love procreated within the sanctity of marriage, but rather as a commodity tested for quality control, set aside for future use or transferred to his or her mother.”

No couple, said Brown, has a “right to a child; every child has a right to be procreated according to God’s design.”

She cited the Vatican document “Donum Vitae (The Gift of Life): Instruction on Respect for Human Life In its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation,” which states in part: “The child is not an object to which one has a right, nor can he be considered as an object of ownership: rather, a child is a gift, ‘the supreme gift’ and the most gratuitous gift of marriage … For this reason, the child has the right, as already mentioned, to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents; and he also has the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception.”

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) issued its call for a ban on IVF after the release of yet another study confirming the link between genetic defects and artificial reproductive technologies. The most recent study, by researchers at Maternité Port Royal Hospital in Paris, found that birth defects are twice as high in IVF-conceived children than was previously believed.

In a U.S. study published in Fertility and Sterility last February, IVF-conceived young adults were found to be up to 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with certain psychological disorders such as clinical depression and attention deficit disorder. They also often reported other maladies such as vision problems, asthma, and allergies.

Project Rachel founder Vicki Thorn, who has done extensive research on IVF, said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com last month that research is beginning to unveil the serious damage done to children who are robbed of the natural environment of conception.

“We are tinkering on a level here that we have never tinkered before,” she said. “It looks good: we can produce babies that way – what’s wrong with them? We don’t know yet. We won’t know for one or two generations.”


For more information:

Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

https://www.spuc.org.uk/

Bio News: Assisted reproduction could lead to increased risks of congenital malformations, say scientists (14 June 2010)

https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_64300.asp

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

U.K. Pro-Life Leader Calls for Ban on All IVF Procedures

https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10061803.html

Brave New World: Sex for Babies Obsolete in Ten Years, Boast Researchers

https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10051805.html

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