Are fertility drugs sinful?

[Alaska Mom]

I think the title of this thread speaks for itself. More and more couples are finding that they are unable to conceive naturally and are turning to medicine to help them. I am curious what others think about fertility drugs.

 

[jeffsi435]

I think the title of this thread speaks for itself. More and more couples are finding that they are unable to conceive naturally and are turning to medicine to help them. I am curious what others think about fertility drugs.

I can't think of any reason it would be sinful. Just make sure you are truly ready to have a baby and financially and otherwise ready for it to come.

 

[Ruck4Jesus]

So abortion (and in some cases, contraception) is wrong because God has blessed a woman with a child, but using fertility meds when God doesn't bless a woman with a child through natural means is OK? I've always thought that was hypocritical. What if it's God's will for infertile couples who want children to adopt a child in need of a home (like the ones that weren't aborted and born to impoverished single mothers)? Science is only acceptable when it promotes traditional values?

 

[Iceman]

So abortion (and in some cases, contraception) is wrong because God has blessed a woman with a child, but using fertility meds when God doesn't bless a woman with a child through natural means is OK? I've always thought that was hypocritical. What if it's God's will for infertile couples who want children to adopt a child in need of a home (like the ones that weren't aborted and born to impoverished single mothers)? Science is only acceptable when it promotes traditional values?

I understand your position, and it is completely valid.
However, you are mixing traditions.

I know of no Protestant denominations that say contraception is sinful. That's primarily a Catholic position. I can see the hypocracy of thinking that contraception is sinful, but fertility treatments are not. But I don't think Protestant denominations (of which I am, but cannot speak for the whole) shouldn't have a problem with either those things.

The question of abortion isn't one of morality or sin. It's the question of when does human life begin, so therefore, is abortion murder? I don't think anyone argues that murder is ethical or moral, so the question is, is a fetus a person?

I'm not really taking sides on that one here, but pointing out the vast difference in talking about fertility treatments, and abortion. They are not comparable, because they are not looking at the same issue. One is about pregnancy and the ethic of science of conceiving, and one is about when a human life is established as more than just a biological sequence of events.