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you're in a conversation and someone
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says IVF makes it possible for couples
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to have children why would anyone be
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against that what would you say invitro
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fertilization or IVF is the process of
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uniting egg and sperm in a laboratory
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rather than through sexual intercourse
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typically IVF is pursued either by
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couples struggling with infertility or
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by couples including same-sex couples
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who hire a surrogate to carry a
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pregnancy as typically practiced IVF F
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involves medically stimulating ovaries
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in order to harvest multiple
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eggs the eggs are then fertilized
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outside the
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womb the resulting human embryos are
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then
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screened those deemed healthy or viable
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are kept for transferring to the womb
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while those deemed nonviable are
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discarded the transfer process is often
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repeated until a pregnancy occurs even
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when pursued by couples who desire to
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have children but cannot there are
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several reasons that IVF is morally
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problematic here are three number one as
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typically practiced IVF destroys human
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lives it is standard practice for
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fertility clinics to create more embryos
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during the IVF process than the
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potential parents intend to bring to
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term in fact many embryos who are
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created through IVF are never
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transferred to a mother often living
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embryos are deemed nonviable for vague
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or inconclusive reasons and are then
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destroyed others are select elected for
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Destruction based on their sex the IVF
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process often involves transferring
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multiple embryos to a woman's uterus in
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order to increase the chances of
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pregnancy it is common for some of the
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embryos created to become victims of
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reductions a euphemism for aboring one
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or more babies while leaving siblings to
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develop this decision again is made
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often based on which embryos are deemed
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more viable and once pregnancy is
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achieved any remaining embryos not
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transferred are treated as excess
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typically they'll be stored in freezers
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indefinitely to await a future attempt
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at pregnancy that may or may not occur
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most often however they will be
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discarded or donated for scientific
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research which means they too will be
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discarded in other words not only are
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many tiny lives created by IVF but as it
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is typically done many are destroyed the
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way selection takes place is a form of
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eugenics the weeding out of certain
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human individuals based on arbitrary
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standards of fitness and quality
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as practiced there is no essential
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difference between the selective
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elimination of certain embryos in the
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IVF process and selective abortions of
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pre-born babies because they have
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disabilities or because they happen to
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be the wrong sex it is important to note
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that some couples attempt a more ethical
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form of IVF either by creating and
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transferring only one embryo at a time
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or by agreeing to transfer every embryo
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that is created however this makes the
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procedure so arduous ous invasive and
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expensive that many fertility clinics
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and couples will not attempt it the
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bottom line is that IVF destroys more
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human lives each year than all forms of
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abortion making it a net source of more
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deaths not of more new
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lives number two over 1.5 million human
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embryos created in the IVF process are
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being stored in freezers embryos who are
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conceived in IVF and deemed viable but
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are not immediately transferred to to a
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woman's womb are often Frozen to be used
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to achieve future pregnancies there are
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many cases however in which these
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embryos remain Frozen and are never
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implanted in fact in just the United
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States an estimated 1.5 million human
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embryos are currently Frozen infertility
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Clinic freezers with the exception of
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those who will be brought to term by
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their parents or adopted by others the
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vast majority will eventually be
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discarded or donated for scientific
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research this means that as typically
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practiced IVF results in countless human
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lives being created and left
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indefinitely suspended only to
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eventually face destruction adding to
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this incredible number should be morally
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Unthinkable especially when there are so
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many existing embryos whose lives can be
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given a chance through
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adoption number three IVF enables adults
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to treat children and sometimes other
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adults as Commodities eugenic motives
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often guide the selection and
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destruction of em OS created through IVF
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and this form of baby manufacturer is
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also Central to other practices that
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treat children as products to satisfy
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the demands of adults for example
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gestational surrogacy the practice of
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transferring a fertilized egg to an
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unrelated woman to carry requires IVF
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surrogacy is plagued by so many ethical
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problems it is highly regulated and even
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banned in Many Nations around the world
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the ethical questions have to do with
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hiring a woman's body separating a new
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born child from the only mother he or
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she has known and excluding that woman
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permanently from the child's life IVF is
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also related to the practice of
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so-called egg donation in which young
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and often financially vulnerable women
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are selected by parents for traits like
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race eye color and intelligence and then
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paid for their gametes which are then
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fertilized in vitro after which the
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resulting embryos are transferred to the
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designated mother this creates a strong
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incentive for parents to shock for the
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traits they want treating not only the
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eventual child but the genetic mother as
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consumer products instead of persons
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finally IVF and gamet donation are
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increasingly used by same-sex couples to
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acquire children because their
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relationships are intrinsically sterile
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in these situations a child will be
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inevitably robbed of either a father or
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a mother and because the ability to
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bypass natural reproduction is a feature
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not a bug of IVF the procedure is legal
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and easily available for anyone to
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essentially order pay for and acquire
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children with very little accountability
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or protections for the children created
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ultimately IVF assumes that the desire
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to acquire a child justifies any means
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of achieving that goal but this isn't
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true when the means involves the
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destruction of human lives and treating
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lives as products to be selected and
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sold rather than as gifts given by God
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and created in His image so the next
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time someone says we should support IVF
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because it makes it possible for couples
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to have children here are three things
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to remember number one as typically
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practiced IVF destroys human lives
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number two over 1.5 million human
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embryos created in the IVF process are
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being stored in freezers number three
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IVF enables adults to treat children and
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sometimes other adults as commodities
