re: Chief's Harrison Butker delivers an unforgettable commencement address

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IVF is creating life that otherwise wouldn’t be created thanks to “gods will”. Not sure why someone that says life is the greatest of gifts should be upset

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What Catholics say is:

1) The creation of that life if IVF isn’t through the natural/unitive part of God’s plan. (For the record, Catholics would also say a child conceived out of wedlock similarly isn’t part of the unitive part, though it is of course natural.)

2) The nanosecond an individual is conceived (no matter how, whether naturally, IVF, surrogate, within marriage, outside of marriage, etc.) that person is in the image and likeness of God. That doesn’t mean the process was natural and/or unitive. It also doesn’t mean that person is any less special/worthy.

3) The IVF vs euthanasia in both cases are sort of “playing God” in a lab/hospice/not naturally, one at the beginning to create life, one at the finality to end life.