Church offers morally acceptable options for infertile couples

A recent Catholic News Service article by Nancy Frazier O’Brien profiled NaPro (natural procreative) technology, www.naprotechnology.com, as a morally acceptable option for married couples struggling with infertility.

Physicians and practitioners at the Omaha-based Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, and at 150 satellite offices in the U.S. and abroad, offer reproductive services and obstetric and gynecological medicine that conform to Catholic teaching on marriage and responsible parenthood.

NaPro interventions assist rather than replace the couple’s act of intercourse so the act of union can achieve its natural end, pregnancy - in contrast with morally suspect reproductive technologies such as insemination, in vitro fertilization, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which sperm is injected directly into a woman’s egg.