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What Rights Do Human Embryos Have? by Stacy Trasancos – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

What Rights Do Human Embryos Have? by Stacy Trasancos

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By Stacy Trasancos, Catholic Exchange, May 6, 2025

Stacy A. Trasancos, PhD, is the author of Particles of Faith: A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science and co-author of Behold It Is I: Scripture, Tradition, and Science on the Real Presence.

Editor’s Note: This author’s new book, IVF Is Not the Way: The False Promises of Artificial Procreation, is available for preorder from Sophia Institute Press.

 

When President Trump signed an executive order on February 18, 2025 calling for a 90-day policy review and recommendations to lower the cost of IVF, he launched a discussion about the morality of assisted reproductive technology. The Catholic Church has declared this procedure illicit ever since 1897 when scientists first considered extending artificial insemination from livestock to humans. When the first test tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in 1978 in England, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) followed up with Donum vitae (“The Gift of Life”) in 1987.

Magisterium on Rights of a Child

President Trump’s administration seeks to “make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children.” But this statement begs a lot of questions, particularly those related to the rights of the child. Should anyone who wants one be able to buy and make a baby with IVF? To answer this question, I will rely on the instruction from the CDF. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) cites Donum vitae on the familiar passage about the gift of a child. …

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