Katie Humphrey is a cradle Catholic. She is the devoted mother of two boys, aged six and two, who were conceived through Intracyto­plasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). This process is currently considered unethical by the Church, because the woman’s eggs are ­fertilised outside the body

I asked Katie whether she had worried about that. She explained that any concerns had been ­tempered by the fact that she herself had been conceived after fertility treatment. “I wouldn’t be here without it.” Katie and her husband had been trying for a baby for more than five years. Doctors could not find any reason why she could not conceive, and suggested ICSI. “My husband and I talked about it, prayed about it,” Katie told me. “For me it was a ‘no brainer’ because from an early age I knew I wanted to be a mum. I would have children somehow.

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