The Patrick Madrid Show: February 26, 2024 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Patrick dives deep into the ethical implications of in vitro fertilization (IVF), shedding light on the Catholic Church's stance regarding the dignity of life and the sanctity of family. Amid the emotional conversations surrounding IVF, he addresses the rights of children to be conceived in love and cautions against the commodification of new life. Patrick also lends a compassionate ear to those grappling with the moral responsibilities that arise from choosing IVF, emphasizing the path of repentance and reparation.
- Patrick comments on the IVF news coming out of Alabama, and shares a Q and A from Fr. Rocky about IVF (00:36)
- Patrick - What should people do about frozen embryos? (21:43)
- Patrick - How often are we allowed to go to confession?
- Viola - What is the book you mentioned about divorce last week? Patrick recommended Leila Miller’s “Primal Loss”
- Steve - My faith in God's providence in our life is not strong. Do you think God really guides us? (43:04)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We've got a great show lined up for you. |
| 0:04.9 | The Patrick Madrid Show. |
| 0:06.2 | It's a household name. |
| 0:08.9 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome back. |
| 0:20.1 | So I promised you earlier that, first of of all that you can call in and be on |
| 0:23.9 | the program by calling 888 914 9194 9149 that number sponsored by catholic order of foresters it's 888 |
| 0:31.6 | 914 9149149 there's some ivf stuff in the, and I want to catch you up on that because it's important. |
| 0:41.7 | And the first thing to point out is just a reminder that the Supreme Court of the great state of Alabama, |
| 0:47.0 | they ruled that embryos, human embryos, are children. |
| 0:54.0 | Now, they're at that stage of development, obviously, and in their case, |
| 0:57.5 | sadly, they are cryogenically suspended, you might say, at that phase of development. |
| 1:05.0 | And some terrible situations exist in which these children who have been conceived in vitro in vitro means in glass |
| 1:12.3 | that's the phrase from latin in glass it's in a it's in a glass container a petri dish a test tube |
| 1:18.7 | they used to call them test tube babies back in the day now in vitro is all the rage and one of the |
| 1:27.1 | terrible things about in vitro is that the embryos who are not |
| 1:31.7 | selected for implantation go on ice indefinitely. So that's part of the background to this. But in any |
| 1:38.3 | case, people are freaking out because the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that these embryos are human beings, ergo they are children. |
| 1:48.2 | Now, if you don't like the word child or children, because that denotes a stage of development |
| 1:54.8 | in human existence, fair enough, if you don't want to use that term, but the point is there are |
| 2:00.0 | human beings, they're there are human beings, |
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