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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Focus. The Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding, and defending |
0:10.5 | your Catholic faith. I'm Psy Kellett, your host, and if you ever tried to defend Catholic |
0:14.9 | sexual ethics, you're likely to have faced questions about in vitro fertilization. Why |
0:19.6 | would the church that claims to be pro-life, for example, oppose this method of bringing |
0:24.5 | new life? Isn't this just more evidence that the church is anti-science and that kind |
0:28.1 | of thing? So today's episode is meant to help you explain and understand grasp of what's |
0:33.1 | at stake with in vitro fertilization. So that you'll have that in your back pocket when |
0:38.5 | it's time to defend the Catholic stance. Our guest is reproductive physiologist, Dr. Craig |
0:45.5 | Trazinski. Dr. Trazinski directed the in vitro fertilization andrology and hormone |
0:51.2 | assay laboratories at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport, where he also served |
0:57.6 | as assistant professor of OBGYN and embryologist. Seeing firsthand that in vitro fertilization |
1:04.1 | harmed patients, Dr. Trazinski left the IVF field and received training and fertility |
1:08.7 | awareness based in methods, including the Creighton model, and then became a certified |
1:12.6 | teacher of the Billings ovulation method. He now serves as the director of strategy and |
1:17.6 | scientific affairs for the Billings ovulation method in the United States. Among other |
1:22.8 | things that he does, Dr. Craig Trazinski, thanks so much for being with us. |
1:26.9 | Like you say, it's really a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with you today |
1:31.4 | and to your listeners. Well, this is a tough one because often we are confronted with |
1:37.1 | this, well, first of all, a kind of ignorance among Catholics. They really don't know what |
1:44.9 | the church teaches. And then a kind of really, why would the church do that when we say that |
1:51.2 | the church opposes this? Was that your experience? Did you take a long time for you to kind |
1:57.8 | of grasp the Catholic view on this? Yes. So I was born a cradle Catholic and went on to |
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