#12201 Can You Love IVF Children While Still Opposing IVF? - Stacy Trasancos

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Many Catholics struggle with how to oppose IVF while still loving children conceived through it. We explain how the Church separates the dignity of the child from the morality of the method—and how to navigate this with clarity and compassion.

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Questions Covered:

15:33 – Why would God allow creatures to come into existence if they are not the right way? Why would God ensoul then?
20:59 – Could you explain philosophically, why is IVF dominating, not cooperating?
29:28 – Could you educate me more, at what stage is the human being frozen?
30:50 – I have 2 nieces who were IVF children. Where do I fit in as a Catholic who loves them but disagrees with IVF?
42:54 – How do people get a baby naturally if they have been told that they have bad egg quality and they feel that IVF is the only hope?
48:28 – How do you approach when someone you know tells you they are going to use IVF and have family who have been successful in using it?
52:23 – Do a lot of people have a hard time bringing the children to term through IVF?

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