In Vitro Fertilization

Recently, an 8th Grade student asked me at a presentation of Theology of the Body why the Church was against in vitro fertilization. She shared that her mom had used that method so that she could be conceived and given life. I told her that the Church recognizes what a gift her life is and that the Church wants that for all life. I mentioned that zygotes, fertilized eggs, are not all treated with the respect that human lives deserve and as she was given. Many are discarded as a commodity, a product of the lab, and not life. The Church speaks for these most vulnerable, tiny lives!