Included is Senate File 2965, which regulates gestational carrier arrangements and assisted reproduction. It's on the governor's desk, and MCC hopes he'll veto it.
In a letter to Governor Pawlenty on the bill, MCC wrote:
"The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is the only morally acceptable framework for human reproduction. Further, donation of semen or ova and the use of surrogate motherhood to bear children are contrary to the unity of marriage and the dignity of the procreation of the human person. The issue of assisted reproduction is complicated. While we sympathize with childless couples who are desperate to have children, the ends do not justify the means. We hope that government will not attempt to redefine the natural state of marriage and human procreation.
In addition, the bill fails to address the rights of human lives created through assisted reproduction technologies. Most human embryos created through in vitro fertilization are not implanted, much less carried to term, but are discarded, frozen or used in destructive and undignified experimentation."
A bill MCC does want the governor to sign is the minimum wage bill. According to the MCC, 29 states presently have minimum wages higher than Minnesota's. More than 300,000 Minnesota jobs would get a pay boost, which I assume would benefit the economy (the more money you have, the more you spend). And, most importantly, as Archbishop Flynn said two weeks ago, it's a matter of affirming human dignity.
To find out more about these bills, read The Catholic Spirit editor Joe Towalski's editorial this week online.
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