Why A Baby Should Not Be Allowed

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Having a baby is considered to be the natural follow on from getting married. The key question is whether it is acceptable for a couple who are not able to conceive a baby naturally, to use fertility treatment: IVF, AIH, AID or surrogacy. The Roman Catholic view is that babies are a gift from God “God created them in his image: male and female, He created them”- Genesis 1. Catholics do not approve of any contraception. Also Roman Catholics agree of having IVF but only the married couple a aloud it. However, they do not agree having AIH or AID because they think that doctors playing with God and because a third person is involved in AID. Furthermore surrogacy is also against in Roman Catholic because they think that no person has the right to have a child and a couple that cannot conceive should consider an adoption. Roman Catholics consider that it is Gods decision if women should have baby or not “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I set you …show more content…

They see this helps create human life and saved couples from the unhappiness of being childless when they want a family. Anglicans agree with having an IVF but spare embryos of under 14 days can be used for research and cannot be thrown away because it is like killing a baby “Thou Shalt not kill” Exodus 20. However you can froze them. It is acceptable way to help couples fitful their desire to have a child. AIH and AISD is also acceptable way to have a baby but AID is acceptable if the child knows who is the donor and meets it. However, surrogacy is against because it is against to use someone’s sperm or eggs. Surrogacy is never acceptable because Anglicans think that you’re rent your body to have someone’s child “Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple” 1 Corinthians

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