What is the Catholic Teaching on Artifical Insemenation and Inventro Fertilization. Are they both disallowed for Catholics to Participate if there is a medical condition as a motive for use of pregency under bonds of marriage.

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Artificial insemination is not necessarily forbidden if its function is merely to facilitate the natural marital act, or to insure that a normally performed act reaches its proper end. This is called homologous artificial insemination, that it, within marriage with the semen of the partner, when this is obtained through a normal marriage act. However, in vitro fertilization is not morally permissible because conception is not the result of the marital act, but outside it: in vitro through techniques which determine the conditions and decide the effect.

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