{"id":2407809,"date":"2025-02-28T08:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adoption-is-the-pro-life-antidote-to-the-ivf-onslaught\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:15:18","slug":"adoption-is-the-pro-life-antidote-to-the-ivf-onslaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adoption-is-the-pro-life-antidote-to-the-ivf-onslaught\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Is The Pro-Life Antidote To The IVF Onslaught"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fadoption-is-the-pro-life-antidote-to-the-ivf-onslaught%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=2407809&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--><p>This\u200b article discusses President Donald\u2064 trump&#8217;s \u2064new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-led-states-sue-biden-admin-over-expansive-climate-order-targeting-trump-legacy\/\" title=\"Republican-Led States Sue Biden Admin Over Expansive Climate Order Targeting ... Legacy\">executive order aimed<\/a>\u200b at exploring subsidies for in\u200c vitro \u2063fertilization (IVF) for American women facing infertility. While \u2064many view IVF as a supportive, pro-family initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">critics highlight meaningful ethical concerns<\/a>, especially\u2063 regarding the high number of embryos that do not survive the process\u2014estimated to be between 93% to 97%. \u200bCommentators like Jordan Boyd and Dr. Stacy Trasancos argue\u2063 that IVF commodifies children by dissociating procreation \u200dfrom the marital\u200b act and treating embryos as discardable objects.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of IVF often frame it in \u200dpro-natalist terms, suggesting \u200cthat governments should\u200d encourage reproduction to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-heres-why-hungary-is-incentivizing-children-marriage\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s Why Hungary Is Incentivizing ..., Marriage\">address declining birth rates<\/a>. However, this approach \u2063raises ethical issues, as it can\u200c lead to the exploitation of women and children. The article suggests that the challenges\u200d surrounding\u200c infertility are symptoms of broader societal problems, \u2063such as delayed \u200dchildbirth and poorer health among women who are \u2064starting families later in life.<\/p>\n<p>The author contends that \u200brather than \u200bfocusing on IVF or abortion policies, pro-lifers should\u200b advocate \u2063for reforming adoption processes,\u2062 which are currently fraught with hurdles and high costs, making them less\u200d accessible than \u200cIVF.\u200b By facilitating easier\u2063 adoption, the author believes it is possible to\u2063 better \u2063serve the needs \u2064of both \u2064couples wishing to have \u200bchildren and children in need \u2062of homes. The article concludes by urging the \u200bgovernment to consider reforms that \u200bprioritize the welfare of children awaiting adoption,thereby addressing the root issues more effectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By now, many people have weighed in on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/expanding-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new executive order<\/a> that will review ways to subsidize in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for American women struggling to conceive a child. As it stands, these treatments are expensive, often requiring multiple attempts at fertilization, each round costing several thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump and the majority of Americans believe that IVF is pro-life and pro-family since it helps couples have children, many detractors decry the major ethical problems associated with it. At The Federalist, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/19\/the-most-pro-family-thing-trump-can-do-is-ditch-his-support-for-child-commodifying-ivf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jordan Boyd<\/a> recently pointed out that IVF results in a huge loss of life: &ldquo;Approximately&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/life\/report\/why-the-ivf-industry-must-be-regulated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">93<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-attempts-define-position-discarding-ivf-embryos-pro-life-stances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">97<\/a>&nbsp;percent of the little lives created in labs via IVF won&rsquo;t ever make it to the womb and certainly not birth.&rdquo; If life starts at conception, and an embryo is a human life, then this means that countless lives are terminated through IVF.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic chemist and philosopher Dr. Stacy Trasancos <a href=\"https:\/\/crisismagazine.com\/opinion\/catholics-first-and-final-defense-against-ivf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained the grave injustice<\/a> of IVF since it separates procreation from the marital act and violates the dignity of the child. She asserts that &ldquo;all children have a right to be conceived in love by a married mother and father.&rdquo; Even when done with the best intentions by a married couple, IVF nonetheless commodifies children, making them objects to accommodate adult desires. As for the unwanted extra children, they are thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>Nathanael Blake recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/25\/ivf-wont-maga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">echoed<\/a> this point, again at The Federalist: &ldquo;The good of having children cannot be pursued through evil means, and it is impossible to separate IVF from its intrinsic dehumanization. IVF, by its nature, treats people as objects to be ordered, manufactured, and delivered rather than as persons to be begotten in love.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, those who support IVF will cite the political futility of arguing against it. After all, for most people (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/05\/13\/americans-overwhelmingly-say-access-to-ivf-is-a-good-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">70 percent, to be exact<\/a>), the millions of lives extinguished through IVF are more an abstraction than a concrete crisis requiring the use of political capital. It&rsquo;s better to focus on winnable issues.<\/p>\n<p>Others will frame IVF in strictly pro-natalist terms. Because the birthrates of most of the developed world are below replacement rates, governments should facilitate and promote human reproduction in any way possible. This is clearly the position of men like Elon Musk, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexzhavoronkov\/2022\/07\/27\/elon-musk-and-other-billionaires-make-their-babies-via-ivf-and-surrogatesis-it-a-future-of-reproduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than half of his thirteen children through IVF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, most people can easily see how unethical and disturbing this reasoning is. Taken to its logical conclusion, the pro-natalist case for IVF would justify a true <em>Handmaid&rsquo;s Tale<\/em> scenario in which women are impregnated through IVF to meet some national demographic benchmark. And if it&rsquo;s popular (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)01484-3\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insanely profitable<\/a>), the pro-life conservatives will be told to stop complaining and &ldquo;take the win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, good or bad arguments don&rsquo;t really matter because IVF is not so much a policy, but a symptom of a larger problem. The reason so many American women today struggle with conceiving children is that they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ashleystahl\/2020\/05\/01\/new-study-millennial-women-are-delaying-having-children-due-to-their-careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">starting their families much later<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/multicultural-mental-health\/202502\/the-rise-of-anxiety-among-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leading stressful lives<\/a>, and are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/articles\/2022-04-05\/report-how-the-u-s-health-care-system-fails-women-compared-to-other-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generally in worse health<\/a>. When most first-time mothers were domestic housewives in their early 20s, having children was relatively easy. But when a growing number of first-time mothers are in their mid-40s, work a full-time job, and have likely been on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rosenfield-left-has-abandoned-health-care-as-human-right-for-unvaccinated\/\" title=\"Rosenfield: Left Has Abandoned Health Care as &#039;Human Right&#039; for Unvaccinated\">hormonal birth control<\/a> and other prescriptions for decades, they will likely need to use IVF.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, these mothers will also likely want to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/firstthings.com\/our-pagan-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">escape hatch like abortion<\/a> if the baby suffers from ailments and disabilities, which tends to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanfordchildrens.org\/en\/topic\/default?id=risks-of-pregnancy-over-age-30-90-P02481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">happen more with older mothers<\/a>. This is why otherwise conservative suburban women push back against political leaders wanting to ban abortion yet seem to be fine with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-americas-chasm-grows-between-red-and-blue-states-on-hot-button-social-issues\/\" title=\"Two Americas: Chasm Grows Between Red And Blue States On Hot-Button Social ...\">15-week abortion limits<\/a>. Many of them want enough time to see if their own unborn babies will develop normally or not.<\/p>\n<p>Once this is understood, Trump&rsquo;s stances on abortion and IVF make complete sense. As with many other issues, he is simply responding to what most Americans want, regardless of the logical or ethical merits.<\/p>\n<p>So where does this leave the pro-lifers who want to protect the unborn from abortion and IVF but find themselves outnumbered? In addition to educating Americans, they need to offer a solution to the problem of so many couples wanting to have children but not being able to do so.<\/p>\n<p>This means seriously reconsidering adoption and foster care. Right now, it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2019\/05\/why-more-women-dont-choose-adoption\/589759\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">easier to abort a child than to put him up for adoption<\/a>, and it will soon become much easier and cheaper to use IVF treatments than to adopt a child in need of a home.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than Americans pressuring their political leaders to subsidize IVF and\/or abortion, they should apply this collective pressure to reforming broken adoption policies. In too many states, adopting a child is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/parents\/adoption-cost-rcna39872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prohibitively expensive<\/a> and so mired in regulations and obstacles that many couples will go overseas to third-world countries to adopt. Even the supposedly unwanted children stuck in the hellacious foster care system are kept from being taken in by a loving household because their criminal drug-addicted parents might possibly have a change of heart once they clean themselves up and get a job years down the road.<\/p>\n<p>And this is to say nothing of adoption agencies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/christians-told-cant-foster-kids-after-asked-if-they-believe-more-outdated-parts-of-the-bible.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discriminate against Christian conservative couples<\/a> who refuse to affirm a child&rsquo;s &ldquo;queer identity&rdquo; and hope to raise him or her in the faith, or Christian nonprofits <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/lgbtq-adoption-campaign-invokes-dave-thomas\/?mkt_tok=NDI3LUxFUS0wNjYAAAGY26-TJb18B1CxvaJXCnyyw7Yas4dEZ7CG3FV05YtwjQJt118DVrDMcHoGd89SI3ULNH97dL2N29608ZdrvQG9Jifre2MqpRVRCn4HSMNXHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">being highjacked by leftist radicals<\/a> to push LGBT adoptive parenting.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, Trump should consider issuing executive orders that remove these barriers to adoption and expedite the process. This would meet the needs of couples who want to have children but can&rsquo;t and couples who want to have children but are afraid of the complications, as well as couples who are expecting children but don&rsquo;t want them.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it would meet the needs of love-starved children who would otherwise be aborted, neglected, or exploited as objects. They deserve better.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher in the Dallas area. He is the founding editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/everymancommentary.substack.com\/\">The Everyman<\/a>, a senior contributor to The Federalist, and has written essays for Newsweek, The American Mind, The American Conservative, Religion and Liberty, Crisis Magazine, and elsewhere. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EverymanComm\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@meyrat\">Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many have commented on Trump&#8217;s executive order to subsidize IVF for women facing infertility, as treatments are costly and often require multiple attempts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":2407810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-02-25T193348.343.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51296,32823,3881,32468,8347],"class_list":["post-2407809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-adoption-2","tag-child-welfare","tag-family","tag-ivf","tag-pro-life"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-02-25T193348.343.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407813,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407809\/revisions\/2407813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}