Responsible Procreation

Procreation here is contradistinguished from mere reproduction in animals and plants,as the generation of offspring by human beings created in the image and likeness of God. Mankind's special position in the order of creation demands that procreation must be done responsibly.Traditionally(as in Igboland),responsible procreation is presumed to be within marriage.But,modernism, with a new found relativism,liberalism and aversion for the religious has attacked the marriage institution and sought to make marriage to include gay and lesbian cohabitation.It has also desacralised sex and championed the use of contraceptives and abortion in the sphere of birth control.Confronted with infertility,it has enthroned artificial reproductive technology, which often time is seen by some as desecrating the dignity of the woman, as desecrating, manipulating and destroying life in its early stages. Moreover,Igboland allows procreation in certain circumstances that are not really marriages;and is following modernism in a sense.Using interviews,opinion polls and library research method, and critical analysis, this work has,on this issue, put modernism,Catholic Church and Igbo culture in juxtaposition.