We have been trying to conceive naturally over years but in vain. We have also been receiving hormonal therapy but turn out that the side effect has to put the therapy on halt. If sperms are collected through conjugal act & if parents shall instruct medical team to conduct IVF in a way so that fertilisation shall happen within wife’s body, would this be considered theologically not as mortal sin? What are other conditions for assisted conception be moral?Will parents giving birth be condemned?
The Church’s teaching regarding artificial reproductive technologies (ART) is not categorically a no. However, as far as I know, we have yet come up with a method that does not raise even more problems than it solves.
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