I would like to ask you kindly to refuse to sign the Act of 29 November 2023 on the amendment of the Act on the provision of wellness care financed by public funds and to re-examine it by the Sejm or mention it to the Constitutional Court," wrote the president of the Polish Episcopal Conference archbishop Stanisław Gądecki in a letter to the president of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda.
The Act provides that "the wellness minister shall develop, implement, implement and finance a programme of wellness policy for the treatment of infertility, including procedures for medically assisted procreation, including in vitro fertilisation carried out at a medically assisted procreation centre" (16a).
The president of the Episcopal pointed out in his letter that "The Episcopal has repeatedly spoken on the issue of infertility, which is not a method for treating infertility".
Archbishop Gądecki pointed out that the Church in her teaching refers to both legal and natural and spiritual arguments. "Human life is simply a fundamental value and an inalienable good. It so demands absolute protection, regardless of the period and quality of human life. Meanwhile, the in vitro method is experimenting on a human being, its circumstantial +production+, which is +the form of human life control+" - said the president of KEP.
Archbishop Gądecki noted that ‘infertility is simply a severe test’. Therefore, “it is essential to make a national programme for the real treatment of infertility. Modern medicine clearly indicates that the removal of medical or intellectual causes of infertility gives a much better chance of having a healthy kid than the procedures of artificially assisted reproduction."
At the same time, the president stressed that each of the children conceived by the in vitro method "is created in +image and similarity+ of God and endowed with human dignity. Everyone should be accepted with love and respect, which they deserve as much as children conceived naturally."
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Fr Peter Skarga's Christian Culture Association collection of signatures under appeal to president Andrzej Duda to veto the bill introducing in vitro financing of the public funds procedure in our country.
"The alleged in vitro method not only does not cure infertility, but alternatively brings a bloody eugenic toll to all those human beings who are not selected for further improvement and birth. The selection is an inherent step in the procedure that affects surviving human beings – not "embryos", not "feds", but real, surviving people at an early phase of their development. If you don't get elected, you're gonna die or you're gonna die in a freezer. And even among these selected children the mortality after their planting in the mother's body is very advanced and reaches respective twelve percent!" we read in an appeal that can be signed HERE.
KAI / own PCh24.pl
SKCh named after Father Piotr Skarga: the usage and financing of public in vitro method is immoral. President, veto!
