@loganleroy8622
Thank you Fr. Casey. Glad someone’s willing to say it.
@elenarewd9299
There have been cases of parents wanting the baby aborted because of birth defects and the surrogate refusing to do so. There are cases of parents not wanting the baby because they were not “perfect” in their eyes and abandoning the baby. There’s a reason why many countries banned it…..it’s evil, and never justified. There may be a very good reason why God isn’t allowing these people to become parents, so instead of pitying them and allowing surrogacy out of empathy for their pain, let’s pray for them.
@trinityimma
Also the part where many fetuses which are alive and have souls are thrown away because they are not viable. Thereby constituting a murder. Not having a child is hard, I know, but adoption is an option.
@Winterclaw42
What Father Casey didn't say: it ignores the fact there's tons of orphans and kids in foster care that need parents. So by getting a surrogate, you're denying kids who need a real family.
@LizziMummy
My heart goes out to people who aren’t able to conceive naturally. I suspect a lot of the reaction was Catholics who may not have realised the theology on this issue and may have felt defensive about it. It really is heartbreaking when you see people who would love a child and it doesn’t happen for them.
@marya4717
The natural order, written in Scripture, is that a man and woman become one via marriage and then procreate. I understand the desire to have one's own biological child, but if given true thought, is it not prideful to only want "one of your own" while ignoring the many children in need of parents? Perhaps you are being called to care for one of them. Examine your motives, desires, conscience, and find the truth.
@sharroncalundan7794
I put egg donors & sperm donors into the same category. Then there are embryos they freeze & many times flush when no longer wanted. Hey can leave them frozen & implant in total strangers if a couple decides to do that. That means you will have children you never know. Any children you have will have siblings they will never know. Weird.
@danielkaranja7978
Another problem for surrogacy is that it takes a vice (the ability of a birth parent to totally separate themselves from their child), into a virtue because that is what is required of the birth mother.
@feurigerStern
I agree, but I can't condemn a mother wanting a child if her uterus can't hold a baby to full term.
@ignatiusjackson235
This reminds me of when Pope Francis answered that question about women's ordination: "No." 😂
@milkjellyjam
thank you father. as a mother I don’t believe pregnancy and childbirth should be commodified
@sydneyhorkan2588
The normalization of such things as surrogacy (which is human trafficking...the buying and selling of humans and comodification & commercialization of children and women) is one of the things that has brought me back to the church and God after 15 years
@JudithLyonz1977
There is also the financial disparity You have people who are more affluent using women who are less affluent as a rented womb.
@dante6985
You don't give any reasons besides vague labels like "unnatural" and "problematic". Chemo therapy is unnatural but saves lives, hurricanes are natural but destroy them. A woman who consents to carry a child to term for unable parents shouldn't be scorned: It's fully her choice to do so, not the Catholic Church's nor the State's. A lot of this ire is directed at gay and lesbian couples specifically and they represent a tiny fraction of surrogate parents.
@michelle8190
My sister and her husband were having a hard time conceiving a child. After lots of thought and being done having all our planned kids I told her I would be a surrogate for her if she wanted. She said no, and then she could never do that to me. She would be devastated if something happened to me. That’s when I realized all surrogacy was bad.
@noahlavignemusic
Wouldn’t Mary mother of Jesus be a surrogate by technicality?
@stevn744
I don't think people understand adoption is always an option we have lots of unwanted children who could use a loving home
@miguellimzon9317
The fact that Abraham was pressured by Sarah to have a child through her servant Hagar as a surrogate is another reason why it's just not right. It adds unnecessary problems that Father Casey mentioned.
@hilarypower6217
For once, as a former Christian now Humanist, I totally agree with Father Casey. I had a friend who has 2 surrogate children - she lost 9 pregnancies - but I had to say what I believe (not just about surrogacy) 'just because you can, it doesn't mean you should'. She cut off all contact, which was sad, but I could never have honestly found joy with her family.
@Mai2727