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In Poland, invitro fertilisation technology (IVF) has been in use for over 25 years, garnering success and social approval. However, in 2007, a heated debate erupted on the moral, legal and economic aspects of IVF. A growing chorus of emphatic Catholic voices calls for IVF to be banned. This paper focuses on ‘naprotechnology’, a new actor and a fresh card in Poland’s IVF debate. This method of treating infertility in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church is promoted as a cheaper and more effective alternative to IVF. Naprotechnology is primarily based on close observation of the female fertility cycle, but also involves pharmacological or surgical treatments. Most Polish gynecologists specialising in infertility treatments are strongly critical of the method, which is seldom referenced in international medical literature. Nonetheless, naprotechnology has considerable exposure in major Polish media outlets. The method has been debated in the Polish Parliament and is promoted by many politicians. The author argues that, despite the possible perception of naprotechnology as an emancipating force, it is in fact a form of a colonisation of the female body and strengthens traditional gender imagery and modern forms of discipline (control, confession, body regimes).
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The essay discusses a disagreement occurring in ethical assessment of in vitro fertilisation and some of the procedures involved in infertility treatment in NaProTechnology (Natural Procreative Technology). The disagreement has its roots in two fundamental principles: absolute respect for human life and concern for a truly human beginning of life. These principles are shown in the light of Christian anthropology, which facilitates its better understanding, and names the causes for their rejection in today’s culture. This rejection drives its force from the changes that have been taking place in modern times in understanding man and nature. Appreciation of nature, including human nature, is no longer strong enough to hold ethical norms. Modern culture treats nature as something plastic and dumb, where man fulfills his rationality and freedom, being himself the only source and maker of all ethical norms. Such treatment of nature renders proper understanding of the Christian ethics impossible, especially where it calls for a behaviour according to nature or warns against that contrary to nature. Only return to the classical idea of nature, enriched by Christian theology of creation, enables us to understand and accept the ethical norms discussed in this essay.
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Over the course of almost half a century of development, in vitro fertilisation techniques have not only become popular and accessible, but have also gained ethical acceptance even in Catholic circles, despite the unequivocally negative assessment of the Church’s Magisterium. The paper addresses the emotional and persuasive arguments of opponents and supporters of this procedure. The serious arguments,revolve around two issues: on the one hand, the fate of embryos that perish in the course of this procedureand, on the other hand, the separation of the conception of a new person from the parents’ sexual act. These objections have lost none of their relevance and moral weight, which is why Catholic parents, despite the undoubtedly acute suffering that is associatedwith infertility, should maintain a critical and distanced outlook on in vitro fertilisation.
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W trakcie niemalże półwiekowego rozwoju techniki zapłodnienia in vitro nie tylko stały się popularne i dostępne, ale także zyskały etyczną akceptację nawet w środowiskach katolickich, mimo jednoznacznie negatywnej oceny Magisterium Kościoła. W artykule została najpierw podjęta dyskusja z emocjonalnymi i perswazyjnymi argumentami przeciwników i zwolenników tej procedura. Poważne argumenty skupiają się jednak wokół dwóch kwestii: z jednej strony losu embrionów, które giną w trakcie stosowania tej procedury, z drugiej zaś rozdzielenia poczęcia nowej osoby od aktu seksualnego rodziców. Zastrzeżenia te nie straciły nic ze swojej aktualności i wagi moralnej, dlatego też katoliccy rodzice, mimo niewątpliwie dotkliwego cierpienia, jakie jest związane z niepłodnością, powinni zachować krytyczny dystans wobec zapłodnienia in vitro.
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