So, if a couple is adopting a baby via arrangement with a pregnant young lady who can’t raise the child, going to the shower implies my approval of fornication, adultery, rape, or even incest? Then I guess I committed a serious sin in going to the baby shower of an unborn child being adopted by the woman’s drug addict sister. This child is the second such baby they’ve adopted. The birth fathers and circuмstances of conception of both children is unknown. DNA testing reveals only that the elder child is of Northern European and German heritage. The second is German and East Asian, possibly Vietnamese. The boy, baby no.1, is normal. The girl, baby #2 was born with brain damage and is developmentally disabled. Both children are baptized and being raised Catholic.
But even if not, I don’t understand not celebrating the arrival of a baby because of how he was conceived. My only question for the OP is their association with the couple. Is it a relative? A neighbor? Colleagues from work or school? Someone from before you became Catholic? Would you attend if you didn’t know about the IVF? (I agree it is in bad taste to announce such a thing, but people these days have little to no sense of decorum. A look on any social media makes that obvious.)
If the couple themselves disturbs you too much to attend, then at least send a card and a small gift for the actual baby.
In that case, the adopting couple did not commit sin. It was the drug addict sister that did the sin, so that is fine to attend the baby shower, but in the case that was originally brought up, it the couple that committed the sin and is having the baby shower. So, the two cases are different.
Topic: Attend Baby Shower of IVF Conception? (Read 13763 times)