What happens when the desire for a child collides with technology, contracts, and competing claims over human life?

In the latest installment of Godsplaining Reacts, Fr. Gregory Pine unpacks the recent surrogacy case involving a child diagnosed with a serious heart condition, a requested abortion, and a subsequent custody battle. The case raises deeper questions about how our culture understands conception, parenthood, and the dignity of the human person.

Fr. Gregory examines the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion, IVF, and surrogacy—and the cultural assumptions underlying each. He considers the dangers of treating reproduction as a technological process, women as instruments, and children as products to be obtained.

Why does the Church oppose surrogacy? What is wrong with IVF? And what can Catholic teaching reveal about human dignity in an increasingly technological age? Tune in to hear Fr. Gregory break it all down on Godsplaining Reacts.

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