IVF and abortion: A Letter from Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor in The Times

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Secondly, the Bill proposes to remove the need for IVF providers to take into account the child’s need for a father when considering an IVF application, and to confer legal parenthood on people who have no biological relationship to a child born as a result of IVF. This radically undermines the place of the father in a child’s life, and makes the natural rights of the child subordinate to the desires of the couple. It is profoundly wrong.

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Update: a related article is here.

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