IS IT A SIN?

 In ethics, there is something we call the principal of double effect action. In this case a person weighs between doing a bad thing because it is deemed so and doing something that may save a situation. For example, it's bad to abort and malaria drugs' can lead to what may be deemed a abortion. In a situation when a woman is pregnant and suffering from malaria, one is caught up in a situation of taking the drug and lose the child and not taking the drug and lose both the mother and the child to malaria. 

This sister in the church is caught up in a similar situation. Don't get pregnant such that she doesn't look like a sinner and face being not able to give birth or find a way of having a child and still remain a Christian. With this in mind, I think it's okey to have artificial insemination. 

Christians will not think this is right but humanity is beyond that. 

However for the above condition to be fully acceptable it must follow the following conditions; 

The action must not be the end in itself. In this case, getting pregnant must not be the end in itself but rather to solve a problem of fearing to be a childless old woman.  

Secondly, there should not be another option that would work out. In this case, does she have a chance of having a child in a way Christians would accept? She says she has failed to get a man in the Church. She cannot bear a child on her own so taking an alternative is wise. 

However, I would advise  her on using artificial insemination because it does not involve the element of attachment that makes one a full human being. Bearing a child would be better after sex between a man and a woman which would help in bonding and attachment between the child, the mother and the father. That contributes to a full growth of a human being. 

Is it a sin? A sin is an act/thought that contradicts God's ways. Is artificial insemination contradicting God's ways? Everything is God's ways so not a sin. But is it worth doing? No, it does not really raise real human beings but beings that are presumed to be human. 

Did she commit a sin? I leave that to God. Did she do something wise? Yes according to her dilemma but calls all other humans to be careful. 

That's my humble thought