Irish Justice Minister considering the publication of official guidelines in order ‘to prevent babies ending up in “legal limbo” following IVF and related procedures?

Last week I blogged on the subject of IVF (22 November 2011), and I am now returning to the same theme.

 

The relentless push for the destruction of human life continues, together with the demystification of the wonder of creation, and the making of children into mere commodities – to be picked off a shelf when and where it suits.   This is child abuse – pure and simple.   And the Irish Government, in common with other western governments, is aiding and abetting this abuse.

The Government’s ‘special rapporteur on child protection’ is concerned at the lack of legislation to regulate the ‘assisted human reproduction’ industry in Ireland.   He worries that a child whose father could be Ukrainian, or Danish, or whose mother might be Indian, or Spanish, or whatever, ‘may never be able to trace their genetic parents or have access to important genetic information.’  It is estimated that there are approximately 500 such children born in Ireland each year.

Now, let nobody accuse me of being unfeeling or uncaring towards those couples that cannot conceive a child of their own.   It is a very sad situation in which to find themselves.   But the child that they obtain through the involvement of ‘donor’ sperm or eggs is not their biological child, and this very fact is a violation of the child’s rights.   Every child is a child created by God – no matter what are the circumstances of his or her conception.  But a child is nevertheless the God-given fruit of the love of a man and a woman – ideally husband and wife.    Following lobbying on the part of the ‘reproductive’ industry, the Government says that in the current economic climate it will only be possible to provide for legislation either for IVF or in relation to the ECHR decision in the AB&C case. 

The Irish Minister for Justice – ironically – is seriously considering the publication of official guidelines in order ‘to prevent babies ending up in “legal limbo” ’    How come?    It seems that couples travel abroad from Ireland so that their child (or someone else’s?) will be borne and given birth to by a woman in some other country.  Such a baby is considered to be ‘stateless’, and unable to be provided with a passport.    So the people who profess to be concerned with the rights of children want to have legislation introduced in Ireland that would negate the fact that a child is a birth child of one woman, while making legal the parental claim of a couple to the child – who may or may not be the biological child of either one of the ‘commissioning’ couple.

The Irish Government would do well to sit back and consider the awful implications of what is involved here – in particular the awful destruction of human life that is involved in the IVF industry, and the denial of their basic human rights to the children who are the  so called ‘products’ of such inhuman experiments.

On the other hand a figure of approximately 4,000 is usually quoted for the number of Irish women and girls whose babies are aborted outside Ireland each year.    How much more humane it would be if the Irish Government – instead of its policy of encouraging the abortion industry and the IVF industry – were to assist, morally and financially, those who unintentionally become pregnant.   Couples who find themselves unable to bear a child of their own could then give a loving home to the child of the mother who for whatever reason is unable or unwilling to raise her child.   This may sound a simplistic solution – but when one considers the physical and mental injury caused by abortion, and the trauma and cost involved in the use of IVF, maybe it’s not such a remarkable suggestion.

NaproTechnology

The heart break of infertility on the one hand and the stress of the dehumanising procedures involved in the IVF industry quite apart from the shocking destruction of human embryos need not be inevitable. Many women are completely unaware that there is a natural alternative treatment for infertility. The science of NaproTechnology has been developed to such an extent that not only does it assist in the planning and spacing of pregnancies, it is also used to assist many seemingly infertile women to become pregnant thus making IVF redundant. 

NaproTechnology is the first women's health science to network family planning with reproductive health monitoring and maintenance. It is a fertility-care based medical approach rather than a fertility-control approach to family planning and gynecological health.

NaPro Technology ‘Finding the causes of infertility’.

Last week, the Irish Times newspaper’s weekly supplement, ‘Healthplus’ carried a feature – covering the best part of a two-page spread – entitled ‘Finding the causes of infertility’.    Interestingly, the article was devoted to the NaPro fertility technology, and the work of Dr. Phil Boyle.   I have written many times in the past about this wonderful method of treating the causes of infertility (in particular, please see my blogs for 29 May 2009, 28 June 2009, and 16 April 2010).   The IT article also included an account relating the experiences of one particular family that was helped by Dr. Boyle through the use of NaPro.   It is important to emphasise that NaPro is a completely natural approach to the problem of infertility, it is non-invasive, it is comparatively inexpensive, and its use avoids the tensions and psychological frustrations and physical trauma that are involved in IVF and other artificial methods.     It is also a highly successful method in the treatment of infertility.

Accompanying the ‘Healthplus’ article is a photograph of Dr. Boyle during one of his consultations, and it is lovely to see that on the lapel of his suit he carries one of the ‘Precious Feet’ or ‘Little Feet’ emblem, which is the internationally known pro-life symbol.   Many people are not aware of the importance of wearing this little emblem, and it is extraordinary how ordinary people are so surprised to learn that it represents the actual size and perfection of an unborn baby’s feet at just ten weeks in the womb of her mother – when it is possible that the mother herself might not even realise that she is pregnant!   
A colleague of mine was given a ‘Precious Feet’ emblem nearly twenty years ago.    Ever since, she makes a point of wearing it in public, and she ensures that she has a supply of the little emblem available so that she can pass on one of them whenever the situation arises.   A thought.