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Article: In vitro fertilization widely used.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 15, 1999
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Church condemns practice that has accounted for 300,000 births worldwide
Dawn Meadows had been married just a year when she and her husband decided to undergo in vitro fertilization at a St. Louis clinic as a last-resort effort to have their own child. Meadows had recently turned 40.
The couple faced some resistance from family members on religious grounds, so before making the final decision they consulted two priests, one during a retreat. Meadows and her husband are practicing Catholics and "totally pro-life," she said.
"Both priests told us the same thing," Meadows said, "that we should look within our hearts and ask ourselves why we were ...