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Embryo Adoption: Charity or Sin?
Saint Peter's Basilica I try to avoid issues involving religion for several reasons. Among them, most organized religions condemn assisted reproduction so there is little to be gained by stating the...
View ArticleRoman Catholic Church Threatens Excommunication of Polish Politicians Over...
It seems that the Roman Catholic Church is none to pleased about Polish plans to possibly liberalize access to IVF. By desperately invoking Godwin’s Law and threatening excommunication to oppose the...
View ArticleWoman Fired For Being Artificially Inseminated
The Huffington Post reports that Christa Dias, a teacher at a Catholic school in Ohio, claims that she was fired because she used artificial insemination as a means of achieving a pregnancy....
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The Moral And Religious Debate Over IVF In Chicago
As plans for a new IVF facility in in a Chicago suburb are debated, opponents to the clinic are finding friends in familiar places – the religious community: When Katie O’Connor and her husband thought...
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Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For Undergoing In Vitro...
I tweeted about this case yesterday which pits religious freedoms against reproductive freedoms: An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization...
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France: No Assisted Reproduction For Lesbians
Ironically, in an effort to gin up support for a bill that will allow marriage equality, the French government has decided to scrap its efforts to offer assisted reproduction to lesbians: The ruling...
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Catholic School Teacher Fired After Artificial Insemination Pregnancy
It is stories like this one that remind me how far some religious organizations will go to destroy the lives of their members and their families. Coming from personal experience, my college (a private...
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Students Rally Around Fired Gay Teacher
When injustice shows its face in the world, it is not unusual to see people rally behind the victim. In the case of Ken Bencomo, a Catholic private school teacher who was fired for marrying his male...
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Italian Court Strikes Down Ban On Egg & Sperm Donation
Good news out of Rome: Italy’s constitutional court has struck down a ban on egg or sperm donation for infertile couples. Wednesday’s ruling was a victory for couples challenging the ban on...
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