$IVOB Could Gain Support from the Catholic Church
October 29th, 2009 at 8:12 am Posted by The Dean
The Dean has taught the CollegeStock Community that he believes $IVOB’s INVO procedure may be considered a more moral and ethical infertility treatment because
- it only uses 2 embryos and does not promote the production of excess embryos
- allows for conception to take place more naturally; and
- limits the amount of stimulants and medications often used during conventional IVF
Back in August, The Dean suggested to the CollegeStock Community that approval from the Vatican, or the Pope himself, would be tremendous for $IVOB’s INVOcell device and INVO procedure. In fact, The Dean believes infertile couples living in predominantly Catholic countries like Spain and Italy would flock to the opportunity to receive $IVOB’s infertility treatment.
But, could this actually be possible and, perhaps, closer to happening? The Dean thinks this could be the case.
A new 22-page document, “Life-Giving Love in an Age of Technology,” has been created by the Catholic Church as a follow-up to a 2006 document, “Married Love and the Gift of Life.” Essentially, these documents are position papers on infertility and the various treatments and methods out there today.
Yesterday, an article from the Catholic News Service suggested that one of the main problems the Catholic Church has with IVF is that it has created a depreciation of life in the form of excess embryos created, frozen and later discarded. Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia has said “the widespread moral acceptance of IVF and the large number of frozen embryos have contributed to the general public attitude that human embryos are less human.”
As The Dean has taught the CollegeStock Community, $IVOB’s INVO procedure produces embryos that will be implanted in the infertile female patient and limits the number of embryos transferred to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s recommended maximum of 2. The article also points to procedures that require “conception” to take place outside of the woman’s body, in a petri dish or test tube, as not condoned by the Church. The Dean believes this gives $IVOB more support because the company’s INVOcell device allows for conception to take place more naturally, inside the woman’s body.
After reading the article from the Catholic News Service, The Dean believes that $IVOB’s INVO procedure is more ethical than most IVF procedures because it combines “Natural methods” with “Hormonal [stimulant] treatment” which are viewed by the Catholic Church as more acceptable infertility treatments.
The document, which will be “debated and voted on during the bishops’ fall general assembly Nov. 16-19,” suggests that “Some solutions offered to infertile couples do justice to their dignity as individuals and as a couple, and to the full human dignity of their child.” Although the article claims that this group of bishops rejects the use of donor sperm and eggs, surrogate motherhood, artificial insemination and human cloning, the focus of the article stresses that SOME “reproductive technologies are not legitimate ways to solve infertility problems.”
For these reasons, The Dean believes that $IVOB’s infertility treatment stands above the rest.
