Not exact matches
The book's description of GIFT is accurate, but to say that the Church's prohibition of artificial insemination doesn't apply in this
case because what is inserted into the recipient woman is no longer only sperm but a catheter
containing both a retrieved
egg and sperm retrieved after intercourse only lays Catholic bioethics open to the charge that it is based on an arbitrary set of boundaries discernible only to the well initiated.
So in some
cases with store bought
eggs, it isn't even possible to have a raw
egg, it has already been denatured and
contains no live enzymes.
In most
cases, the Pill
contains both estrogen and progesterone, which work together to prevent the body from releasing an
egg every month.
In the
case of vitamin A, however, you'll need
egg yolks and other animal foods such as fish since plant foods don't
contain vitamin A (they
contain large amounts of beta carotene which the human body can convert to vitamin A but not very efficiently as other animals).