{"id":2193739,"date":"2024-03-06T04:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivf-kills-children-while-idolizing-them\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T04:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:30:01","slug":"ivf-kills-children-while-idolizing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivf-kills-children-while-idolizing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"IVF: A Paradox of Life and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fivf-kills-children-while-idolizing-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2193739&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ethical\u2063 Dilemma of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)<\/h2>\n<p>When the\u2064 Supreme Court of Alabama declared last month that frozen human embryos ought to be considered \u201cchildren,\u201d debate raged around the internet. Arguments about the case\u2019s implications and what policy should be in that state\u200c and beyond are only\u200d increasing. I\u2019ve been struck by how IVF is being framed as \u200bsomething pro-life because it creates babies, and as something God-inspired, a modern technology helping those with infertility\u200b \u2014 as legitimate \u200das \u2063doing heart surgery to help someone \u2063who has heart disease. Is it?<\/p>\n<p>If we look\u200b only to the end \u200bresult of precious babies being born and smiling parents embracing them, then \u2063it would appear so. But we\u2062 must probe\u200d deeper and ask\u2063 this vital question: What is done in \u200corder to achieve that end result? Having\u2063 said that, \u200con\u2064 an issue like this, it is important to tread sensitively, for it is a deeply personal matter that\u200b involves a very good and ordered desire for offspring. I\u200c know that well \u2014 I \u200cdidn\u2019t experience my first pregnancy until age 40 and have lived through the deaths of four of my preborn children who were lost to miscarriage. The ache of the absence of children is\u2062 deep and devastating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-503042153\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b0383efcf8997443104e80893a8e626e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b0383efcf8997443104e80893a8e626e\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet, as I write in my book, <em>Conceived by Science: Thinking Carefully and Compassionately about \u2063Infertility and IVF<\/em>, reproductive technologies such as IVF involve harming and killing some children to create others. How can it be\u200c ethical to create one, or a few\u200b humans, at the expense of other humans?<\/p>\n<p>IVF facilities typically advertise preimplantation genetic testing,\u200b particularly for people like me who have experienced recurrent miscarriages (three of my miscarriages were in a row). But that is code for using modern technology to identify which of your children \u200dare genetically\u200b disabled so they \u2063can be killed so as not\u2063 to be inserted into\u200d one\u2019s body\u200c like\u200b the \u201chealthy\u201d \u2063or \u201cgenetically fit\u201d ones will be.<\/p>\n<p>Just as there is a difference between someone having a heart attack versus someone being stabbed in \u200dthe\u2064 heart, there is a difference between a mother\u2019s child dying naturally in her body from a genetic anomaly versus\u200b being killed outside her body because of that genetic defect. How many \u201cless than perfect babies\u201d have had their lives cut short at the authorization of their \u200dparents \u2062and the hands\u2063 of IVF technicians for healthy siblings to be born?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Endangering and Ending Lives<\/h2>\n<p>In\u200c addition to preimplantation genetic testing, IVF endangers and ends the lives\u2062 of \u2063many children in other \u2062ways. In my book, I discuss\u200d one couple who had 15 eggs fertilized. Since science has established that beings that reproduce sexually begin their lives at fertilization (none of us can trace our lives back to being a sperm or\u2064 an egg, but we can trace our lives back to \u2064being teenagers, toddlers, infants, fetuses, and\u2063 a one-celled embryo), that means the 15\u200d one-celled embryos the couple had created \u2062in a lab are 15 distinct human beings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0634a95b029f345407ce9df129b52b4e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-0634a95b029f345407ce9df129b52b4e\"><\/div>\n<p>But what became\u200b of these humans? The \u2062couple reported that by three days, only 12 were \u201cviable,\u201d meaning already three were lost. That left 12, only five of whom were described as \u201creally good.\u201d Only two of those embryos were inserted, leaving behind 10\u200c human embryonic children. The couple froze five of\u200b the embryos, \u200bmeaning \u200dnot only are those five at risk of not surviving the \u2062freeze-thaw process down the road, but raising a question of what happened to the other five. Since they weren\u2019t frozen or inserted, were\u200d they killed right away or, depending on\u2064 laws, possibly experimented on first?<\/p>\n<p>The couple presented their story as joyfully giving birth to twins, but in reality, those two children came\u2064 at the tragic expense of\u200b jeopardizing 13 other lives.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extramarital Third-Party Donors<\/h2>\n<p>Or take the IVF industry\u2019s common advertisement of egg and sperm donors (more accurately described as egg and sperm sellers, because it can be incredibly profitable to become one). On the surface this may appear\u200c as though one person is helping another; it looks good. Dig deeper, however, and we \u200drealize it involves treating the creation of unrepeatable, irreplaceable individuals as though they can be manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>It also \u2062raises these questions: Can we claim a right \u2063to another human? If we \u200bare only supposed to have sex\u200b within the confines\u2062 of marriage,\u200b but use a third\u200b party for \u200dthe sperm or egg, then\u200c aren\u2019t we creating children\u200c who \u200bmorally would never be \u2062able to come to be through spousal intercourse? Even if only each spouse\u2019s sperm and \u200degg are used, if we are commanded\u200d to be fruitful and\u2063 multiply \u2062only with our spouse, how is it ethical to contract the \u2063creation of\u2063 offspring out\u2062 to a third party to execute?\u2063 It is one thing to aid \u2062a couple in their private sexual act achieving its\u200c end of pregnancy, such as\u200c with drugs for ovulation or surgery to unblock fallopian tubes; it is quite another to replace\u2063 the sexual act entirely and manufacture a human into \u200cexistence at the hands of a stranger external to one\u2019s marital bond.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3aa216eb5903e306dad963f0a8b409e2 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3aa216eb5903e306dad963f0a8b409e2\"><\/div>\n<p>There is no denying that how one comes into existence has no\u200c bearing on the value \u2062of who comes into existence. That is why, if four people were conceived \u2062by four different methods (marital lovemaking, a hookup, rape, or \u200dtechnology), each of those individuals is valuable and equal even though the means by which\u200d they came to\u200d be are not.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethical Alternatives<\/h2>\n<p>So\u200b what \u2063hope is there for couples who struggle to achieve or maintain a pregnancy\u2063 but want \u200bethical alternatives to IVF? \u2064I have benefited from\u2064 restorative reproductive medicine, which \u201cseeks to cooperate with or\u2063 restore the normal physiology and anatomy of the human\u200b reproductive system. It \u2062does not employ methods \u200dthat are inherently suppressive, circumventive \u200bor destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was investigated\u200d through bloodwork and a sonohysterogram for physiological problems that could explain my pregnancy losses. Although in my case, no condition turned up to explain my miscarriages (pharmaceuticals and surgery can be helpful for\u2064 others), progesterone\u200c and a daily baby aspirin during pregnancy have helped sustain \u2062the lives of \u200ca\u2062 minority of my children. Having said that, the deaths in my body of the majority of my offspring have reminded me \u2063of the fragility of life, that life is a gift no matter its length,\u200d and that we cannot claim a right\u200b to another\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>In my book, I share\u2063 a story\u200b of friends of mine, married\u200b for more than 20 years, who wanted babies but never succeeded in conceiving.\u2062 My friend said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Very early on we felt the Lord call out \u200cthe idol of having children. Although a blessing \u2026 \u200bif our life only had meaning or was fulfilling if we had them then we didn\u2019t trust the Lord for the life he \u2064would give us \u2026 we realized that there\u2019s something inherently wrong with saying \u200c\u2018Having children is so important that I will go to any length to have them.\u2019 It\u2019s like the big idol in my life showed up when I started to think that way. \u2026 [I sensed God saying to me], \u200d\u2018I have plans \u2063for you \u2026 but \u2062I want\u200d to free you from\u200b your idols so you \u2062can live the fullest \u2062life I have possible for you.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-68ce71bbace493ecb78e829560e4d9d5 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-68ce71bbace493ecb78e829560e4d9d5\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How\u200b does the use of third-party \u200bdonors in IVF raise ethical questions about\u200d the creation of individuals and the sacred bond of marriage, and what are the moral implications of treating \u200dprocreation as a manufacturing process<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \/h2><\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 ethical dilemmas\u2062 surrounding\u200b IVF\u200b are complex and deeply personal. While the desire \u2063for children is a good and ordered \u2063desire, it is\u200d essential to examine the methods and consequences of reproductive technologies such as IVF.<\/p>\n<p>One of the\u2062 primary concerns with IVF is\u200b the harm and potential\u2064 loss of life that is involved in the process. Preimplantation genetic testing, often marketed as a\u200b way to identify genetically disabled embryos, raises ethical \u200bquestions \u2062about the\u2063 value and dignity\u2063 of all human life. Choosing to selectively implant &#8220;healthy&#8221; embryos while discarding or even \u200bkilling others with genetic anomalies raises concerns about the inherent \u2064worth and equality of every human being.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the\u200d process of IVF\u200c can endanger and end the lives\u2062 of multiple embryos. Couples often create multiple\u200b embryos in a lab, but not all\u2062 of\u2062 them \u200care \u200bconsidered viable \u2063for implantation. \u200cThis \u200dleaves\u200d the question of what happens to the remaining embryos that\u2064 are not selected for implantation. Are they frozen, at risk \u200dof not surviving the freeze-thaw process? Or are they discarded or possibly experimented on?<\/p>\n<p>The use\u200c of third-party donors in IVF also poses ethical concerns. By using sperm or egg donors, couples are treating the creation of individuals\u2062 as a\u2064 manufacturing process. This raises questions\u200d about the right to another human\u200d being \u200cand the \u2064moral implications \u2063of creating offspring outside\u2064 of\u2064 the confines\u200b of spousal \u2064intercourse. Contracting the creation of offspring to a third party \u2062can be seen as a violation of the sacred bond of marriage and the natural order of procreation.<\/p>\n<p>While IVF \u200bmay seem\u200d like a\u2064 solution to infertility, it \u2062is important to consider\u200c the ethical alternatives available. Adoption, for example,\u200c provides a\u200c way to give a \u2064loving\u2064 home to\u2064 children in need \u200cwithout \u2063engaging in reproductive technologies that raise ethical concerns. Additionally, advancements in medical treatments for infertility, such as fertility drugs and surgeries, can assist\u2063 couples \u200din achieving\u2063 pregnancy \u2064while\u2063 respecting the natural processes\u200b of human\u200d reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>The ethical dilemmas surrounding \u200cIVF\u200d highlight the need for \u2064careful consideration \u200band thoughtful debate. \u2062It is\u2063 essential to \u2064prioritize the value and dignity of human \u2064life, regardless of the means of\u2063 conception. Ultimately, the goal should be to find alternative solutions\u2062 that respect the sacredness of life \u2062and the natural order \u200bof reproductive processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Alabama&#8217;s Supreme Court declared frozen human embryos as &#8220;children,&#8221; it sparked intense online debate. The discussion on the case&#8217;s implications and policies for the state and beyond continues to grow. 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