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The IVF process involves methods which at times considers the person, who is still at the embryonic stage, to be merely “a mass of cells” which may be used, selected and dispensed with. Many times, a significant number of human embryos are sacrificed for the sake of the birth of the desired child. Such in vitro fertilization practices constitute the meditated and direct destruction of innocent human life. The Church Magisterium has always considered this destruction of embryos to be abortive. Blessed John Paul II teaches that: “Procured abortion is the deliberate and direct killing, by whatever means it is carried out, of a human being in the initial phase of his or her existence, extending from conception to birth”.[11]
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