With reference to the questions connected with human procreation and the types of artificial fecundation, the document states that the «origin of human life… has its real context in marriage and the family, in which it is generated through an act expressing mutual love between man and woman. A really responsible procreation with respect to the coming baby must be the outcome of marriage» (no. 6). As for the search of ways to overcome infertility, in this respect, it is written that the following techniques are licit: «techniques respecting the right to live and the physical integrity of every human being», «the unity of marriage, which includes mutual respect of the spouses’ rights to become father or mother just one through the other», and «the specifically human values of sexuality, according to which the procreation of a human person should be pursued as the fruit of the specific conjugal act of love between spouses» (no. 12). (To be continued)
