Monday, August 6, 2012

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Monday, August 6, 2012
Becoming a mother to my husband:
The highest call to love
By Ellen Marie Edmonds 
Celebrate Life

"To love and to cherish ... for richer or poorer ... in sickness and in health ... till death do us part." Those lovely words, so familiar from the traditional exchange of marriage vows between a man and woman, laid the foundation of unconditional love that framed our joyful marriage of 16 years. The word "matrimony" derives from the Latin word mater ("mother") and the Latin suffixmonium (which signifies an action, state, or condition). In other words, "matrimony" implies becoming a mother. But I never imagined I would become a mother to my husband. 

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How many parents would your child like?
MercatorNet.com
The new Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) have allowed the creation of brave new families. Whereas earlier it took a man and a woman to produce a child, now there are all sorts of combinations available. A child can be manufactured with any number of players involved. Indeed, a child can have three, four, five, or six different "parents" involved in his or her creation. And sadly, a child can have no parent----at least no actual biological parent to grow up with. Or quite often it is just one biological parent. Thus the child is robbed of the most important right he or she can ever have----to be born in and raised by a biological mother and father.  

Startling admissions in IVF journal
BioEdge
Some IVF patients are being offered risky, unsafe techniques which have not been developed with clinical trial and which offer dubious benefits, according to an extraordinary article in the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online (RBO). Writing in the journal founded by Robert Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize for developing IVF, two British scientists have made a devastating critique of the IVF industry.  

Former IVF doc: My conversion began
when confronted by a priest
LifeSiteNews
One former in-vitro fertilization (IVF) expert's difficult moral journey towards becoming the first of his kind to embrace a new vision of fertility treatment, one in line with his religious faith, began with the intervention of a Catholic priest. Reproductive endocrinologist Anthony Caruso told the Chicago Tribune July 30 that he began to seriously question the IVF business, in which children are picked and chosen according to physical features and frequently aborted in "selective reductions" of multiple pregnancies, after an encounter with his priest.