III. The Love of Husband and Wife

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Techniques
involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and
fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable.
They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. the act which brings
the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give
themselves to one another, but one that “entrusts the life and identity of
the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the
domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Such
a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality
that must be common to parents and children.”¹⁶⁷ “Under the
moral aspect procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not
willed as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of
the spouses’ union …. Only respect for the link between the meanings of the
conjugal act and respect for the unity of the human being make possible
procreation in conformity with the dignity of the person.”¹⁶⁸

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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