The Vatican came out with a new rule: No surrogate mothers!?

Aren't you glad they waited until after Jesus was born?The Vatican came out with a new rule: No surrogate mothers!?
And a bunch of old mostly white men get to call the shots on these matters because?
It's not a "new rule".



The Catholic Church condemns surrogate motherhood for at least two reasons. The first involves the in vitro procedure itself; the second, the surrogacy aspect.



The 1987 instruction Donum Vitae, by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, notes: "In the usual practice of in vitro fertilization, not all of the embryos are transferred to the woman鈥檚 body; some are destroyed. Just as the Church condemns induced abortion, so she also forbids acts against the life of these human beings."



To the question, Is surrogate motherhood morally licit?, Donum Vitae says: "No, for the same reasons which lead one to reject heterologous artificial fertilization: for it is contrary to the unity of marriage and to the dignity of the procreation of the human person. Surrogate motherhood represents an objective failure to meet the obligations of maternal love, of conjugal fidelity and of responsible motherhood," the document says, "it offends the dignity and the right of the child to be conceived, carried in the womb, brought into the world and brought up by his own parents; it sets up, to the detriment of families, a division between the physical, psychological and moral elements which constitute those families."



Many fertility clinics in the United States, in fact, do refuse to offer the "social surrogacy" service, arguing that it brings such procedures for reasons of infertility into wide public disrepute.



Observed Sherrie Smith, program administrator for the Center for Surrogate Parenting and Egg Donation in Maryland: "If a woman is too busy to carry the child, or doesn麓t like the physical appearance of pregnancy and wants somebody to do that for her, she麓s probably too busy to be a mother."The Vatican came out with a new rule: No surrogate mothers!?
The Vatican does not speak for Christianity. It speaks for Catholicism. I am a Methodist, and I do not condemn surrogate mothers.
What? I want a reliable source on that one.

And the church wasn't even around until long after J's death so your comment is a non squinter.
its similiar to the joke



Was jesus really a virgin?

what about that one time he got nailed...?



they are both oldie and a goodie.
They always come up with such rules
Link it or it didn't happen
Um... yes ?