Artificial
insemination is against God’s
will
Ashley Thomas
Most people believe a child is the most precious gift in the world. Whether it
is the old-fashioned way or through fertilization, couples across the globe strive
to acquire the miraculous gift of a child in their lives.
This desire for a child
has gone too far in many cases and couples striving for the gift have reached
an unethical low by mail ordering babies. They have forgotten where these children
are sent from and who creates them.
A common solution to this infertile jam, that, according to U.S. News & World
Report “about 1 in 10 women suffers from,” is to obtain eggs from
another women and fertilize them with her partner’s sperm. The’PR
Newswire said this method results in an estimated 3,000 babies each year.
The
couples deal with an egg broker and pay thousands of dollars to the egg donor
for the time and hassle she experiences. For some, those are trivial hurdles
and they will do it without blinking. To me, having a child does not outweigh
the ramifications and the fall from God’s good graces that will occur.
My faith has taught me God is omnipotent and he “created human beings,
making them like himself. He created them male and female, blessed them, and
said ‘have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the
earth’” in Genesis 1: 27-28. I whole-heartedly believe God knows
each and every one of us before we enter the womb and he loves us. Without him,
we would not have been created.
God does not intend for all couples to produce children and he expects us to
understand this.Among other blessings, we have all been given free will. Every
person possesses a conscience to help them decipher what is right and what is
wrong. God hopes we all follow his will and be good people. Psalm 100:3 says, “He
made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, we are his flock.”
Flock implies we are to follow his lead. Producing children by egg donation is
not following his lead. God intended for all human beings to be brought into
the world through natural conception between two married people.
Sex was not intended for pleasure but for bonding between a married couple and
to create new generations of God’s people. The Catechism of the Catholic
Church: Second Edition says when a couple seeks the aid of donated eggs “they
dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act which brings the
child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves
to one another.”
Fertility treatments such as obtaining eggs from a donor are tampering with God’s
creations. He gives us, his creations, the necessary tools for procreation.
We
were not given the right to meddle with the intentions of God. If God has not
created a child for a couple to love and nurture, then the couple shouldn’t
become creators of their own.
Ashley Thomas is a Freshman Electrical Engineering Major.
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