In a recently released instruction, Dignitas Personae, the Church’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith objects to IVF on several grounds, including the fact that many embryos are created in the process, and few survive. This outcome is not, however, very different from natural conception, for the majority of embryos conceived by sexual intercourse also fail to implant in the uterine wall, with the woman often not even knowing that she was ever “pregnant.”
罗马天主教会仍然没有改变反对体外受精的立场。在最近发布的“人性尊严”的指示里，教会圣座教义反对体外受精的几个理由，其中包括了因为许多胚胎在这一过程中诞生但却少有生存这一事实。但是，这个结果和自然受孕并没有什么大不相同，大多数因性交而受孕的胚胎也并未能成功地植入子宫壁，往往造成一些妇女甚至更本没有意识到她曾“怀孕 ”过