http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/ken-klukowski-supreme-court-rules-social-security-can-deny-benefits-to-children-conceived-after-death-of-father/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/ken-klukowski-supreme-court-rules-social-security-can-deny-benefits-to-children-conceived-after-death-of-father/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 17:35:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134327 Breitbart: A deceased man’s child is not always a child under Florida law when it comes to Social Security benefits. So said the Supreme Court in Astrue v. Capato, a case where modern technology collided with federal entitlements. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/ken-klukowski-supreme-court-rules-social-security-can-deny-benefits-to-children-conceived-after-death-of-father/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/uk-may-allow-free-ivf-for-older-women-same-sex-couples/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/uk-may-allow-free-ivf-for-older-women-same-sex-couples/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 15:16:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134283 AP: Britain's health advisory agency says the government should extend free fertility treatment to women up to age 42 and same-sex couples, according to draft guidelines. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/uk-may-allow-free-ivf-for-older-women-same-sex-couples/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/scotus-children-conceived-after-fathers-death-not-covered-by-social-security/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/scotus-children-conceived-after-fathers-death-not-covered-by-social-security/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 15:27:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134158 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/scotus-children-conceived-after-fathers-death-not-covered-by-social-security/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/extra-embryos-one-family-offers-them-on-craigslist/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/extra-embryos-one-family-offers-them-on-craigslist/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:21:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133712 LifeNews: What do you do when you have created 18 extra IVF embryos and you don’t want to destroy them or give them away to just anyone? You put them on Craigslist of course! ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/extra-embryos-one-family-offers-them-on-craigslist/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/in-sperm-banks-a-matrix-of-untested-genetic-disease/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/in-sperm-banks-a-matrix-of-untested-genetic-disease/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 23:00:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133637 NY Times: The scale of the problem is only now becoming apparent with the advent of online communities like Ms. Kramer’s. “There needs to be oversight, and some regulation of the industry,” she said.It is not known how many children are born each year using sperm donors, because mothers of donor offspring are not required to report their births. By some estimates, there are more than a million children in this country conceived with donated sperm or eggs. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/in-sperm-banks-a-matrix-of-untested-genetic-disease/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/ind-diocese-denies-discrimination-over-ivf/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/ind-diocese-denies-discrimination-over-ivf/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 19:43:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133593 AP: An Indiana diocese is denying that it discriminated against a parochial school teacher who claims she was fired for violating Roman Catholic doctrine by using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/ind-diocese-denies-discrimination-over-ivf/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/chromosomal-screening-improves-ivf-pregnancy-rates/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/chromosomal-screening-improves-ivf-pregnancy-rates/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 23:07:55 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133373 Doctors Lounge: Screening embryos produced by in vitro fertilization using array comparative genomic hybridization plus morphology improves pregnancy rates over screening by morphology alone in single embryo transfers, according to a study published online May 2 in Molecular Cytogenetics. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/chromosomal-screening-improves-ivf-pregnancy-rates/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/in-vitro-fertilization-defended-in-court-inside-costa-rica/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/in-vitro-fertilization-defended-in-court-inside-costa-rica/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 18:06:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133302 InsideCostaRica: According to Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Piero Tozzi, ADF pointed out that Costa Rica was acting within its sovereign capacity in outlawing the procedure, which almost always results in the destruction of “spare” human lives at the embryonic stage of development. ADF argued that the Court should grant Costa Rica a “margin of appreciation,” whereby it may decide the best way to protect the life of a developing human being, and that the Court should not exceed its authority by intruding upon an area that is solely within the competence of Costa Rica. “No one should try to usurp the sovereign right of a nation to determine the best way to protect life. The court should not exceed its authority by intruding upon an area of domestic policy that is solely Costa Rica’s to decide,” he said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/09/in-vitro-fertilization-defended-in-court-inside-costa-rica/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/adf-comment-on-brief-to-defend-costa-rica%e2%80%99s-ivf-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/adf-comment-on-brief-to-defend-costa-rica%e2%80%99s-ivf-laws/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 22:24:35 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133239 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/adf-comment-on-brief-to-defend-costa-rica%e2%80%99s-ivf-laws/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/new-england-j-of-medicine-in-vitro-fertilization-off-the-hook-for-causing-birth-defects/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/new-england-j-of-medicine-in-vitro-fertilization-off-the-hook-for-causing-birth-defects/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 22:21:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133237 Nature.com: In vitro fertilization (IVF) does not cause birth defects in children conceived with the technology. Instead, the higher rate of congenital disease in children born after IVF, compared to natural conception, is probably explained by factors underlying the parents’ infertility. Those conclusions come from a study of more than 300,000 births, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/08/new-england-j-of-medicine-in-vitro-fertilization-off-the-hook-for-causing-birth-defects/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/court-orders-former-b-c-lesbian-couple-to-divide-left-over-sperm/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/court-orders-former-b-c-lesbian-couple-to-divide-left-over-sperm/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:00:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132369 Vancouver Sun: A lesbian couple from British Columbia divided all their assets when they broke up in 2006 but forgot about 13 tubes of sperm that were being stored in a sperm bank. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/court-orders-former-b-c-lesbian-couple-to-divide-left-over-sperm/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/nonomom-mexican-woman-pregnant-with-9-babies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/nonomom-mexican-woman-pregnant-with-9-babies/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:54:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132399 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/nonomom-mexican-woman-pregnant-with-9-babies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/in-vitro-procedure-intended-to-expand-family-couple-says/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/in-vitro-procedure-intended-to-expand-family-couple-says/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:09:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132377 Journal Gazette: Emily and Brian Herx – the Hoagland couple launched into a national religious debate this week – said Friday they just wanted to expand their family when she underwent in vitro fertilization and ultimately lost her Catholic teaching job. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/in-vitro-procedure-intended-to-expand-family-couple-says/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/indiana-teacher-says-catholic-school-fired-her-over-ivf/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/indiana-teacher-says-catholic-school-fired-her-over-ivf/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:51:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132130 Boston Globe: An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant is suing in a case that could set up a legal showdown over reproductive and religious right. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/indiana-teacher-says-catholic-school-fired-her-over-ivf/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/ivf-is-human-experimentation-that-causes-health-problems/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/ivf-is-human-experimentation-that-causes-health-problems/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:23:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131921 First Things: IVF has always been a form of human experimentation–which costs the subject’s (the baby) parents a lot of money–since we jumped head first into the technology without fully knowing the potential consequences. And now, decades later, we are finding that people born from IVF have greater health risks. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/ivf-is-human-experimentation-that-causes-health-problems/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/big-increase-in-single-and-lesbian-women-receiving-ivf/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/big-increase-in-single-and-lesbian-women-receiving-ivf/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:25:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131845 Christian Concern: There has been a substantial increase in the number of single and lesbian women using IVF since new laws were passed removing the need for a father to be present before fertility treatment can become available. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/big-increase-in-single-and-lesbian-women-receiving-ivf/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/%e2%80%98create-the-family-you-want-boy-or-girl%e2%80%99-sex-selection-advertized-in-canadian-newspapers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/%e2%80%98create-the-family-you-want-boy-or-girl%e2%80%99-sex-selection-advertized-in-canadian-newspapers/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:59:55 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131635 LifeSiteNews: In the wake of a new study that indicates that unborn girls are being targeted for abortion by certain immigrant groups in Canada, evidence has surfaced that sex selective in vitro fertilization (IVF) is being regularly advertised in Canadian news papers. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/%e2%80%98create-the-family-you-want-boy-or-girl%e2%80%99-sex-selection-advertized-in-canadian-newspapers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/study-ivf-babies-may-face-later-cardiac-risks/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/study-ivf-babies-may-face-later-cardiac-risks/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:51:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131602 MedPageToday.com: Children conceived using assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization, may be at risk for premature cardiovascular disease, a small study found . . . according to the study published April 17 in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/study-ivf-babies-may-face-later-cardiac-risks/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/18/whats-the-difference-between-a-natural-father-and-a-sperm-donor-cal-appeals-court-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/18/whats-the-difference-between-a-natural-father-and-a-sperm-donor-cal-appeals-court-ruling/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:34:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131436 Findlaw: A California appellate court has clarified that a sperm donor who is not married to a designated recipient mother does not have to pay child support. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/18/whats-the-difference-between-a-natural-father-and-a-sperm-donor-cal-appeals-court-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/pa-appeals-court-upholds-awarding-of-frozen-embryos-to-wife/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/pa-appeals-court-upholds-awarding-of-frozen-embryos-to-wife/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:17:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131211 Philadelphia Inquirer: For the first time, a Pennsylvania appeals court has confronted the complex question of who gets custody of embryos, ruling this week in favor of a Chester County woman who hopes to give birth using frozen embryos that her estranged husband wants destroyed . . . The three-judge Superior Court panel affirmed and quoted the trial court's reasoning: "Because Wife cannot achieve genetic parenthood otherwise, we conclude that Wife's interest in biological procreation through the use of these pre-embryos outweighs Husband's professed interest against procreation." | Opinion: Reber v. Reiss | Hat tip: How Appealing ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/pa-appeals-court-upholds-awarding-of-frozen-embryos-to-wife/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/women-cannot-rewind-the-%e2%80%98biological-clock%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/women-cannot-rewind-the-%e2%80%98biological-clock%e2%80%99/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:16:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131192 Yale News: Many women do not fully appreciate the consequences of delaying motherhood, and expect that assisted reproductive technologies can reverse their aged ovarian function, Yale researchers reported in a study published in a recent issue of Fertility and Sterility. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/16/women-cannot-rewind-the-%e2%80%98biological-clock%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/fertility-treatment-bans-in-europe-draw-criticism-ap/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/fertility-treatment-bans-in-europe-draw-criticism-ap/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:56:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131073 AP: Many countries have strict rules on who is allowed to get fertility treatments. And recent court rulings suggest nothing's likely to change anytime soon. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/fertility-treatment-bans-in-europe-draw-criticism-ap/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/mothers-helper-a-shocking-thing-i-learned-after-giving-up-my-eggs/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/mothers-helper-a-shocking-thing-i-learned-after-giving-up-my-eggs/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:34:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130436 The Atlantic: For $8,000 it was easy for the author to justify selling her eggs the first time. The second time, too. Only then did they share the bad news. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/mothers-helper-a-shocking-thing-i-learned-after-giving-up-my-eggs/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/oh-federal-judge-catholic-school-computer-teacher-can-sue-after-firing-for-ivf-procedure/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/oh-federal-judge-catholic-school-computer-teacher-can-sue-after-firing-for-ivf-procedure/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:21:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130228 AP: Arthur Spiegel says in his ruling last week that Dias was a non-Catholic computer teacher with no role in ministering or teaching Catholic doctrine. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/oh-federal-judge-catholic-school-computer-teacher-can-sue-after-firing-for-ivf-procedure/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/oh-catholic-school-teacher-may-challenge-her-firing-for-using-artificial-insemination/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/oh-catholic-school-teacher-may-challenge-her-firing-for-using-artificial-insemination/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:47:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130036 Religion Clause Blog: In Dias v. Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43240 (SD OH, March 29, 2012), an Ohio federal district court refused to dismiss a pregnancy discrimination and breach of contract suit brought by a former technology coordinator at two Catholic schools. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/oh-catholic-school-teacher-may-challenge-her-firing-for-using-artificial-insemination/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/should-ivf-kids-get-social-security-benefits-when-parent-dies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/should-ivf-kids-get-social-security-benefits-when-parent-dies/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:11:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129695 LifeNews: That is what the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding in Astrue v. Capato. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/should-ivf-kids-get-social-security-benefits-when-parent-dies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/justices-weigh-ivf-technology-against-1939-law-is-a-posthumous-ivf-child-a-survivor/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/justices-weigh-ivf-technology-against-1939-law-is-a-posthumous-ivf-child-a-survivor/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:29:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129151 NPR (includes audio): ustices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy both raised an issue not before the court — whether a child conceived in vitro can be properly called a survivor since the child never lived with or was dependent on the deceased. How Appealing links to more reports on the arguments. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/justices-weigh-ivf-technology-against-1939-law-is-a-posthumous-ivf-child-a-survivor/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/court-benefits-for-babies-born-after-dads-death/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/court-benefits-for-babies-born-after-dads-death/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:40:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128989 AP: Should babies conceived through artificial insemination after a father's death get his Social Security survivor benefits? ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/court-benefits-for-babies-born-after-dads-death/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/unheard-voice-in-nj-surrogate-case-%e2%80%94-the-birth-mothers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/unheard-voice-in-nj-surrogate-case-%e2%80%94-the-birth-mothers/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:55:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128722 NJ Law Journal (subscription only): The New Jersey Supreme Court heard oral argument in a surrogate-mother suit, The Matter of the Parentage of a Child by T.J.S. and A.L.S., and exposed the case's greatest weakness: the class of women with the greatest rights at risk was unrepresented . . . The birth mothers were not heard from. Of such stuff, bad law is made. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/unheard-voice-in-nj-surrogate-case-%e2%80%94-the-birth-mothers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/scotus-argument-preview-who-is-a-decedents-child/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/scotus-argument-preview-who-is-a-decedents-child/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:07:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128705 SCOTUS Blog: The following contribution is by Kristine S. Knaplund, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. Professor Knaplund has written extensively on the legal and ethical issues that arise when children are conceived and born years after a genetic parent has died, including articles in the Arizona Law Review, Kansas Law Review, the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, the Michigan Journal of Law Review, and the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal. She is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Elder Law, Disability Planning and Bioethics Group. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/scotus-argument-preview-who-is-a-decedents-child/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/14/after-ivf-we-became-pregnant-with-triplets-but-my-wife-wanted-two-of-the-babies-aborted/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/14/after-ivf-we-became-pregnant-with-triplets-but-my-wife-wanted-two-of-the-babies-aborted/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:35:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128654 LifeSiteNews: My soul carries a new scar. The pain is fresh and keen, and I know that while time might see the pain fade, I will never fully recover from what I’ve seen, and done. For I have failed, intentionally and knowingly, in the first duty of a parent: protecting the lives of two of my children. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/14/after-ivf-we-became-pregnant-with-triplets-but-my-wife-wanted-two-of-the-babies-aborted/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/12/then-again-maybe-i-will-two-kids-two-zygotes-and-a-dilemma/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/12/then-again-maybe-i-will-two-kids-two-zygotes-and-a-dilemma/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:15:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128317 Slate: Why Have Children?, by Christine Overall, a philosophy professor at Queen's University in Ontario, is about puzzles like these-not the specifics of reproductive technology, twins, or IVF, but about the moral questions that arise when one decides to have children, or more children. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/12/then-again-maybe-i-will-two-kids-two-zygotes-and-a-dilemma/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/ohio-court-lesbian-mom-must-share-custody-of-child-with-ex-partner/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/ohio-court-lesbian-mom-must-share-custody-of-child-with-ex-partner/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:03:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128032 The Columbus Dispatch: A lesbian must share custody of her 8-year-old biological daughter with her former partner, a Franklin County magistrate has ruled. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/ohio-court-lesbian-mom-must-share-custody-of-child-with-ex-partner/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/trouble-in-vatican-pontifical-academy-members-upset-with-ethics-deficit-at-infertility-conference/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/trouble-in-vatican-pontifical-academy-members-upset-with-ethics-deficit-at-infertility-conference/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:37:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127349 LifeSiteNews: A gathering of the Vatican’s own academy for promoting respect for life was met with palpable discontent from its own members and other registrants after presenters on the topic of infertility alluded to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other artificial reproduction technologies as “natural” and legitimate for treating patients, despite their conflict with Catholic moral teaching. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/trouble-in-vatican-pontifical-academy-members-upset-with-ethics-deficit-at-infertility-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/reproductive-technologies-and-the-quest-for-immortality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/reproductive-technologies-and-the-quest-for-immortality/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:08:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127304 Public Discourse: The fertility industry is booming because we desire genetic and memetic immortality—the preservation and reproduction of our bodies and ways of life. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/reproductive-technologies-and-the-quest-for-immortality/feed/ 0