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The Counsel of Trent

#564 – The case against IVF (with Stephanie Gray Connors)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent sits down with Stephanie Gray Connors to discuss why IVF is wrong and how we can communicate this teaching to a world that sees nothing wrong with children being “conceived by science.”

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.3

I'm your host, Caholic Anches, aologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:15.7

Today I have with me the queen of bioethics herself, Stephanie Gray-Connors.

0:21.3

Steph has done a lot of great work doing pro-life work on abortion ethics, debating abortionist.

0:28.0

She is one of the few people, by the way, really probably one of the only people actually,

0:32.7

that I would trust to fill in for me in a second for a talk or for a debate on abortion.

0:38.3

She does a great job with that, but recently she has been expanding in the world of pro-life

0:42.1

and bioethics.

0:43.8

She wrote a book on assisted suicide.

0:47.0

And now she has a new book on IVF, in vitro fertilization.

0:52.0

That book is called Conceived by Science.

0:55.9

I know, let me get the subtitle here, right?

0:57.9

Conceived by science, thinking carefully and compassionately about infertility and IVF.

1:05.2

So Stephanie, welcome back to the podcast.

1:08.2

Thank you. It's always great to connect with you, Trent.

1:10.9

And I have to say, since having my baby, I've been, I just naturally had to be more selective

1:16.3

about what events I say yes and no to.

1:18.7

And so on a number of occasions recently when I've declined requests,

1:22.5

I have sent a list, a very small list of alternative speakers.

1:26.9

I recommend, of course, you're on that list.

1:29.4

And I recently said to a group, Trent is basically a female version of me.

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