Wife: I have always thought it was messed up to spend so much money on fertility clinics and surrogacy when there are so many children already born that need families. I guess that’s something I agree with the pope on.MaxPC wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:39 pmQuite; so many children in need of adoption.Josh wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:23 am I've gotta side with Francis's view on this one. Surrogacy is really not a good thing, particularly the modern, industrial form of it.
It would be good to see other churches start to take a stance on this issue and also teach against it. Infertile couples often go through a lot of heartbreak, and fertility clinics are more than willing to make a buck - or 100,000 bucks - from these grieving couples.
Someone we know was infertile for years, decided to adopt, ended up getting pregnant after that, adopted more and had 1 or 2 more children, and then found out that one of their adopted children’s moms were pregnant again and didn’t want the child, and ended up getting pregnant in the process of adopting so they almost have twins at this point. it is always interesting the stories of people who are infertile for so long and decide to adopt and then after they adopt, they end up randomly having a baby, but equally loving their birth children and their adopted children.