In a new document, entitled Dignitas Personae, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has re-iterated the ethical unacceptability of IVF. John Smeaton's blog carries a full review of the document by Dr John Fleming, a bioethicist and corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
This is a much-needed clarification of the Church's teaching at a time when very few people understand the moral implications of IVF and the catastrophic loss of early human life caused by the procedure.
