- Aug 22, 2009
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In-vitro fertilization (IVF) dehumanizes human reproduction, by taking the act of unitive love out of it and converting it into a purely cellular process. This devalues the understanding of procreative love in marriage, thereby devaluing the meaning of marriage itself. This causes grave hurt to the institution of marriage which is the very foundation of society. Furthermore, unitive love, which is conjugal union in marriage, is inseparable from conception, because, conjugal union’s only physiological purpose is conception; and conjugal union and conception are different stages of reproductive process. Therefore, to have one without the other is to go against the creator of the physiology. Furthermore, during IVF only embryos that are suitable for implantation are used; the others are discarded. Furthermore, in some instances the sperm donor is anonymous. This deprive the resultant human beings the dignity of knowing their origin (biological parents), causing them grave injustice and psychological trauma.