Stanley J. Grenz
nancy and birth—a purpose that does not seem sufficiently important to
warrant the possible confusion.”23
Second, procedures that employ only the sperm of the husband and the
egg of the wife ought to be welcomed. Although they are not free from all
potential difficulties, they can serve as a means of assisting an infertile couple
in producing a child that is in every respect truly their offspring. Properly
limited in this manner, technological assistance need not be dangerous, but
could become a God-given means of assisting happily married couples to
enjoy the blessings of parenthood.
From
Sexual Ethics: A Biblical Perspective,
Stanley J. Grenz, 1990, Word, Inc., Dallas,
Texas. All rights reserved.
23.
Janet Dickey McDowell, “Ethical Implications of In Vitro Fertilization,”
The Christi
Century
, 19 October 1983, 938.