#12617 Is IVF Ever Moral? Catholic Answers on IVF, and Dropped Calls - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Is IVF ever morally acceptable for Catholics facing infertility? In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Catholic Answers apologists tackle challenging questions about Catholic teaching on human life, Scripture, and Mary. The discussion begins with how to respond when someone believes IVF is their only option, followed by questions about consent and pregnancy, whether Ezekiel 18 contradicts original sin, and how the Church responds to the claim of total depravity. The episode also explains what the Magisterium is, whether Revelation 12 refers to Mary or Israel, the evidence for Mary’s sinlessness, why Catholics honor Mary above John the Baptist, and how spiritual beings like angels can engage in battle. A thoughtful exploration of Catholic doctrine and biblical interpretation.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:55 – How can I answer someone who isn’t Catholic and the only solution is IVF?
- 08:15 – Do Catholics minimize consent? The example: Just because a person consents to sex does not mean they consent to impregnation.
- 15:14 – What’s the Catholic response to the claim that Ezekiel 18:20-21 argues against original sin?
- 20:31 – Since the bible describes original sin as impacting the whole person, it seems like it teaches the doctrine of total depravity, which the Catholic Church rejects.
- 28:51 – Could you explain what the magisterium is?
- 33:36 – Is Rev 12:1-18 about Mary or Israel
- 40:40 – I struggle with Mary being perfect? What proof do we have that she led a sinless life?
- 47:25 – Why do we believe that Mary was greater than John the Baptist when Jesus says he is the greatest?
- 50:30 – How can spirit creatures do battle, regarding the battle of angels?
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| 0:31.8 | My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show, filling in for these first few minutes of the show. |
| 0:36.6 | Today we have dropped calls with Carlo, Dr. Carlo, Matt, I added with his new YouTube channel. Carlo, |
| 0:43.6 | how's it going? Edgar, it's going well, man. It's great to be on with you guys. |
| 0:48.3 | It's always great to have you on, and especially now since you have your new YouTube channel on it, I think is growing |
| 0:55.9 | pretty quickly, isn't it? Yeah, we got a pretty good momentum going right out the gate here |
| 1:01.1 | just for a few weeks, three or four weeks now. And so I'm pretty excited about it, looking |
| 1:05.5 | forward to growing the channel, interacting with folks, and getting some new episodes out. |
| 1:09.4 | I think people are going to really enjoy it, and people are already enjoying it and have |
| 1:14.3 | offered some very positive feedback about the channel. |
| 1:18.3 | So it's pretty exciting. |
| 1:19.9 | And then we also have our Patreon community over at Dr.carlo.com with Dr. Spelled Out. |
| 1:25.6 | All right. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, there you have it. |
| 1:26.7 | If you want more of Dr. Carla, go to that YouTube channel, check that out. |
| 1:30.3 | But today we're doing drop calls. |
| 1:31.8 | So no calls today. |
| 1:33.3 | We'll be just taking all the questions that Carlo has compiled for us. |
| 1:38.0 | You had this genius idea of just compiling all the questions that we were not able to get to, |
| 1:43.4 | especially the people who had dropped off. |
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