Nick Loeb on IVF embryos: “The ability to create life is special”
by Carder
When I was in my 20s, I had a girlfriend who had an abortion, and the decision was entirely out of my hands. Ever since, I have dreamed about a boy at the age he would be now.
Later, I was married for four years to a woman with whom I tried to have children, with help from a fertility specialist. The difficulties we had made me feel, more than ever, that the ability to create life was special. When she left me, as I was running for a seat in the Florida State Senate, my dreams of a family were shattered.
~ Businessman Nick Loeb making the case for why he should be able to use his frozen embryos created with ex-fiancee Sofia Vergara in a New York Times op-ed titled, “Our Embryos Have a Right to Live,” via The Huffington Post, April 30
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
So much heartbreak….
Concerning frozen embryos: Catholic bioethicists are of the consensus that creating and freezing embryos creates a morally impossible situation. It is not ethical to keep them, or kill them, or even to implant them (although that would seem to be the least evil of the available options). And in whom do we insert the children to gestate? The genetic mother? An adoptive mother? A surrogate?
Where we have encouraged the culture to respect life, we need to educate about the disrespect that in intrinsic to IVF, the creation of extra embryos, and the storage of frozen embryos.
These situations are exactly why I oppose IVF. It is insane that in our country (and other countries), one set of children is destroyed by abortion, and another set is created (in a very expensive procedure) many of whom will also be destroyed.
If abortion wasn’t legal, there would be plenty of children to adopt for families that have trouble conceiving by themselves. But it’s like I said about Elton John, he did not want some ordinary lady’s common baby (or babies); he wanted to buy one of his own choosing as if a child were an object in a catalog.