The Catholic teaching on “new birth technologies” such as artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, and human cloning, is among the most vilified of Her moral stances. However, one need not search very long to see the wisdom in the Church’s constant teaching that reproduction needs to take place in the context of the love of the marital act.

Take this article, for example: Donor Registry Allows IVF Conceived Children to Unite with Biological “Donor” Parents and Siblings.

I think I have mentioned before that my wife and I look with apprehension toward the day when we have to explain to our two adopted children the complexities of their birth. At least in our case we can tell them how much their birth family loved them – enough to give them a better life through adoption than their volatile circumstances allowed. However, nothing can remove the fact that their right to be conceived in an act of love was stripped away from them.

Now think about these poor children conceived by artificial insemination seeking out their biological fathers. Do they expect these men – who were paid to ejaculate into a cup – to embrace them with open arms, or even to have the pride of fatherhood? Truthfully, these men probably don’t even want to be bothered with the children conceived through their business transaction. Artificial insemination has made human reproduction into a cold business, leaving children with less connection to their biological heritage than our own adopted children.

This is not to comment on the value of these children. All human life is precious, no matter how it was conceived. However, these children will face great alienation because our culture has chosen to separate reproduction from the act of love and to make children into a commodity.

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