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S. THE HOLY BIBLE ON THE METHODS OF
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
"The Lord God...made a woman, and brought her to the man.....Adam said: 'This is finally
bone-of-my-bone and flesh-of-my-flesh! She shall be called wom[b]-man - for she was taken
out of man.' Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife
so that the two of them shall become one flesh. Now both the man and his wife were naked
but not ashamed.... So Adam started to have sexual relations with his wife Eve. Then she
conceived, and afterwards she gave birth." - Genesis 2:22f & 4:1.
2185. Sacred Scripture authorizes human reproduction by way of sexual intercourse. As we
approach this chapter, we first need to offer brief definitions of questionable procedures
(either practised at the present or planned for the future) - toward trying to produce human
children. We mean several highly-questionable procedures for human reproduction - such as
cloning, AID, AIH, SHW, IVF, and NWH.
Various non-coital techniques of human reproduction
2186. By cloning animals or humans is meant the non-sexual duplication, from genetical material
derived from the living source, of ectypes of the entire creature - very similar to the original.
This is somewhat akin to asexual or vegetative reproduction in certain plants.
2187. By AID (or Artificial Insemination from Donor), we mean the deliberate but non-coital human
insemination of a married woman with semen taken from a man or men other than her own
husband. Better to preserve the anonymity of the donor(s) and also to enhance the woman's
impregnatability, this is sometimes done with a 'semen cocktail' mixed from the sperms of
several different men.
2188. By AIH (or Artificial Insemination from Husband), we mean the deliberate but non-coital human
insemination of a married woman with semen derived exclusively from her own husband. That
semen and its sperm may, however, be treated chemically and boosted artificially with
inorganic material before introduction into the woman - in order to enhance her
impregnatability.
2189. By SHW (or Surrogate Human Womb), we mean the utilization - whether by way of natural
sexual intercourse, or by way of artificial insemination, or by way of embryo transplant - of a
woman's fallopian tube(s) and/or womb to conceive and/or to bear a child or children not for
herself but for somebody else. That somebody else may be a man not her own husband; or a
woman other than the bearer herself.
2190. By IVF (or In Vitro Fertilization), in the case of human beings, we mean the deliberate but
artificial and non-coital human fertilization outside the female body of a human egg-cell by a
human sperm-cell in a petri dish or in a test-tube (alias in vitro). Here, the petri dish in effect
functions as an AFT (or an Artificial Fallopian Tube) external to the woman's own body.
2191. By NWH (or Nonhuman Womb for Humans), we mean the deliberate and non-coital human
utilization of the wombs of animals or of a man-made synthetic 'womb' to facilitate nidation
and/or embryonization of human zygotes (in artificial SHWs). Several prominent women have
expressed the desire thus to beget their own children - without the latter even for a second
ever having lived inside of those women throughout the entire period of gestation.
2192. AIA (or Artificial Insemination of Animals), like AIP (or Artificial Insemination of Plants),
involves the human introduction of non-human male seed into the female sexual parts of
nonhuman creatures to induce fructification artificially. If done by using male and female
materials from the same basic genus, it seems this technique does not meet with the