Returning Catholics FAQs: About IVF

O n Mondays, I answer questions frequently asked by those considering a return to the Catholic Church. How do I know this stuff? I was away for more than 30 years myself, and am the co-author of When They Come Home: Ways to Welcome Returning Catholics , a book for pastors and parish leaders interested in this ministry.

If the Church is against birth control, why does it oppose in vitro and other forms of artificial insemination and surrogate births?

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